Sentence examples for overtaking speed from inspiring English sources

The romantic comedy has already become Sandra Bullock's biggest ever hit in the US, overtaking Speed, and the market has been starved of romcoms throughout the summer period.

This study used naturalistic riding data to determine the effects of lane width and roadside configurations on overtaking speed, lateral position and likelihood of comfortable overtaking on tangential sections of an exclusive motorcycle lane.

With several classes of car and frequent overtaking, speed is important on the straights.

Results revealed that both the roadside configurations and lane width significantly affect the participants' lateral position, while the roadside configurations only affects the overtaking speed.

A variety of road design and driver behaviour factors may affect overtaking speeds and distances.

Participants' overtaking speeds and the front motorcycles' lateral position contribute significantly to the likelihood of comfortable overtaking in exclusive motorcycle lanes.

Webber had overtaken Speed just before this incident.

It's true that the three-cylinder engine struggles to overtake at speed, but it's such a game little engine in the urban setting, with its deep exhaust note and keen accelerator response, that you can easily forgive its ultimate lack of muscularity.

We were overtaken at speed by an entire family on the move in what was clearly parts of two different vans welded together at a slight angle, causing the head of the family, driving through a splintered windscreen with fixed intensity, to slalom sideways downhill, through the rain.

It made points that were barely qualified and later contradicted: that ants are better when they act individually (much like people are quicker at boarding a plane when they choose their own seats), but they are also better when they act as part of a collective (much like people are ultimately quicker at driving to a destination when they don't overtake or speed).

And there is no creature afoot which we do not enslave, overtaking it by speed or subduing it by force or catching it by some artifice, nor yet any that lives in the water or travels through the air; nay, even of these two classes, we pull the former up from the depths without seeing them and drag the latter down from the sky without going to them.