Sentence examples for narrowly surpassing from inspiring English sources

For perspective, the Tumblr deal is not only Yahoo's largest acquisition under Mayer, it's the largest acquisition of any social network company in years, narrowly surpassing what Facebook spent on Instagram ($1 billion) last year.

Despite the burgeoning recession, Measure R succeeded with 67.9% of the vote, narrowly surpassing the two-thirds threshold it needed.

The planning commissioner led all City Council candidates with $19,299 in funds raised from Jan . 1to June 30, narrowly surpassing fellow Commissioner Fred Speaker, who garnered $18,276.

In an impromptu voyage to Asia, the Peking (duck, ginger, rice wine) narrowly surpassed the Thai (curry-coconut broth, lemongrass, coriander).

The company is basking in the critical glow of its original series, "House of Cards," and this month narrowly surpassed HBO in total subscribers.

Conway's provocation came as Clinton's lead in the popular vote has narrowly surpassed 2 million votes, according to reports.

This total narrowly surpassed the old three-day record of $72.1 million set in 1997 by The Lost World: Jurassic Park.

Apple places second with 46.3percentt of responses and Microsoft, at 40.1percentt, narrowly surpasses Amazon, with 39.6percentt, for the number three spot.

According to her family, Detroit-resident Louisiana Hines just narrowly surpassed South Carolina's Mamie Rearden as the oldest African-American in the U.S.

Variant FY trails wild type by only 1 2% in accelerated aggregation experiments at 12 and 24 hrs, and narrowly surpasses wild type at 36 hrs.

The election was a major setback for Tsvangirai, who had won the first round of the 2008 election but narrowly failed to surpass the 50% mark needed to avoid a runoff.