Sentence examples for outpaced cost from inspiring English sources

"Our fiscal first-quarter margins and [earnings per share] were lower than planned because of an intense promotional environment and inflation that outpaced cost savings," said Gary Rodkin Gary Rodkin, ConAgra's chief executive officer.

A chart showed that their expensive wardrobes far outpaced costs for their mortgage, private school and medical expenses.

The ticket price increases are not only several times higher than the 20% increase in the Consumer Price Index since January 2007, they also outpace cost increases for most other entertainment.

Sales should outpace costs, however, and in this area Kroger's caution may be rooted in canniness.

Its valuation increased from $10 million to $20 million because of the work that was done to increase the value of the company that greatly outpaced the cost of creating that value.

Meanwhile, the human cost of actual rapes continue to outpace the cost of fictional rapes that happen in people's minds.

In the fifties, consumer conformity drove the conventions of burial; the rising cost of dying outpaced the rising cost of living.

As 401(k) accounts get larger, the amount deducted for overhead costs grows bigger and bigger -- far outpacing the cost of administration.

Of course, that no doubt partly reflects the fact that the cost of tickets for most live events far outpaces the cost of buying downloads, CDs or paying for a monthly streaming subscription.

At the height of the Celtic Tiger prosperity in the first half of the last decade, houses prices, like Irish GDP, started to outpace the cost of home ownership in the most affluent parts of the UK.

"Budgets are well outpacing the cost of games on shelves," said Shaun McCabe, production director for Insomniac Games, which makes the popular game Resistance 2. Industry analysts said that if the user base of the PS3 and the Xbox 360 were larger, then more games would be sold, giving publishers more revenue to cover their costs.