Sentence examples for has managed to overtake from inspiring English sources
Thanks to her Stakhanovite work rate (she cranked out an album a year between 2005 and 2012), but also her star quality and ear for a hit, which extends to her current jam Work, Rihanna has managed to overtake the Beatles, who enjoyed a total of 59 weeks at No 1 in the US.
Tonight, with just one day remaining, a team called The Ensemble has managed to overtake BellKor with a score of 10.09% — an improvement of.01% over the former leaders.
Based on this month's Alexa & Google Trends for Websites traffic data, Cosenza posits that Facebook has managed to overtake some local incumbent social networks in the past few months, particularly in Europe.
Apple, in its flush of new, bigger iPhone 6 handsets, has been selling record numbers of its older and newer model smartphones in the last few months, and now it's passed another significant milestone: it has managed to overtake sales of Android devices in the key market of the U.S. for the first time in three years.
They had managed to overtake this conference center from Qaddafi forces.
However, with this promise, the Pirates have managed to overtake all the other self-defined protest-vote parties, such as Die Linke or the Greens – who in the meantime have managed to become quite old and bourgeois.
Their best placing this year has been fifth (Button in China and Pérez in India) and they are 451 points behind Red Bull, the constructors' champions, though they have managed to overtake Force India for fifth place.
Women have managed to overtake men in education and almost completely catch up in experience over the past three decades.
The Spanish-language music video has managed to rack up this mind-boggling amount of views in less than seven months, much quicker than the 26 months it took Wiz Khalifa's song to overtake Psy's "Gangnam Style".
Apple TV — the company's existing bridge to content on televisions — hasn't managed to overtake the collective popularity of other smaller middleware like Google's Chromecast and Amazon's Fire TV and Fire stick.
I'd not stopped all the way up and had even managed to overtake some wheezing bloke in the final quarter mile.
