Chelsea's attacking engine room, the inside‑forwards Andre Schürrle, Hazard and Oscar, outran, outpassed and thoroughly outplayed their counterparts in an Arsenal formation that mirrored the home team on paper, but which in practice seemed to be playing a half‑speed version of the same game.
Most fell by the wayside; their ideas outran their ability or their money.
But the influence of Scottish settlers far outran their numbers.
He was a pioneer of the study of moving fluids (among many other things), but his ideas outran the computational tools of his day.
Their saving as a share of disposable income fell steadily from around 10% in the early 1980s to around 1%, while home-ownership rates and residential-construction activity both outran levels justified by demography alone.
In the great killing of Protestants in 1572, the Paris mob outran its rulers; in 1789, far more radical than the countryside, it overthrew them; it was crushed only by ruthless force in 1848 and 1871.
Brazil faced grave economic problems, including inflation and a growing national debt, as government expenditures consistently outran revenues.
In 1781 his ambitions outran the capacities of the local foundries, and so he prepared to cast molten metal into disks in the basement of his own home; but the first mirror cracked on cooling, and on the second attempt the metal ran out onto the flagstones, after which even he accepted temporary defeat.
Jackson, known as the "Lithgow Flash" after her hometown, was just 17 years old when she twice outran the great Dutch sprinter Fanny Blankers-Koen.
Because Shelley's health suffered from the climate and his financial obligations outran his resources, the Shelleys and Claire Clairmont went to Italy, where Byron was residing.
But one of his elegiac lines seems to refer poignantly to the late Dr Brookes: Runners whom renown outran.
