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This phrase is used to indicate that one thing is greater in amount, size, or degree than something else. For example: The number of visitors to the museum last month was exceeded by the number of visitors this month.
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Or that Beamon's old record, finally broken 23 years later by Michael Powell — by two inches — is exceeded by a full foot.
They take in up to 10,000 calories per day, the equivalent of 17 Big Macs, elevating their metabolic rates to a level that, according to a Dutch study, is exceeded by only four species on earth.
Virtually every organ in your body can be damaged by alcohol, but this damage is exceeded by the social problems of crime, drink driving, suicide, family violence and breakdown, occupational problems and the like.
With a market value of more than $156 billion, Google is now worth more than any media company and is exceeded by only 13 American companies, including such icons of commerce as Exxon Mobil, Johnson & Johnson and Wal-Mart.
Indeed, at £10million-a-year, it is exceeded by only Arsenal, Liverpool and Chelsea, plus Manchester City's far more complicated tie-up with Etihad Airlines, for their matchday kit.
Allowing Tokyo Electron to have a disproportionate share of governance means Applied Materials is only paying a small premium of about 6 percent to the Japanese company's undisturbed share price, a value that is exceeded by the expected synergies.
The illegal workers certainly are cheaper than native-born Americans, but the value of the menial jobs most perform -- landscaping, unskilled labor -- is exceeded by the real costs of their presence -- overpopulated schools, larger classes and more expenditure for bilingual and special-ed programs.
But the dread that one feels at the thought of having to listen to one more word about Vince Foster, if Hillary gets the Democratic nomination, is exceeded by the thought of stories on whatever has been going on at the Foundation.
Could it have something to do with the fact that when he returned to Madison Square Garden after he had been traded to the Timberwolves, he turned to Knicks owner James Dolan, whose ineptness is exceeded by his control-freak tendencies, seated and unleashed a stream of invective and curses that was apparently shocking in its vulgarity?
This world is certainly very complex, but its complexity is exceeded by complexity in language.
Violation costs occur if the milestone date is exceeded by a certain time.
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