At Sotheby's, the February sale outstripped presales estimates and with 96% of the 77 lots sold became the second most successful of its type in the house's history.
The figures far outstripped Wall Streets estimates for earnings of just $1.3 billion, or $1.39 per share, on sales of $9.7 billion.
Some genetic studies, based on both modern and ancient DNA sequences, have suggested that modern human population growth quickly outstripped that of Neandertals, but estimating population levels from these kinds of data is very difficult and inexact.
Though South Africa, with more infections than any other country, far outstripped that total number, with an estimated 390,000 new infections in 2009, the rate of new infections annually has decreased there by nearly half since its peak in the late 1990s.
The pace of climate change has outstripped predictions, prompting the economist to revise his estimate of the amount of money governments should spend on countermeasures from 1% to 2% of GDP.
In County Leitrim, in the Irish Midlands, housing construction outstripped demand (based on population growth) by 401% between 2006 and 2009, according to one estimate.Few minded.
Has supply outstripped demand?
Dancing has long outstripped singing for Usher.
Demand outstripped supply by 2.6 times.
Even before the downturn, demand outstripped supply.
