The market bust saw the P/E zoom past 45 for a while in 2002 prices didn't fall as fast as earnings but then it stabilized around 30 again.
"We blew past Hachette, then we blew past Hearst, and for a while we were right on the heels of Time Inc.," Mr. Florio wrote of his company's expansion, in a 2005 proposal for an autobiography that he later decided not to complete.
Foreign stocks also climbed past domestic stocks for a while until the correlations that are the symptoms of panics took global markets down at once.
Can't get past a song for a while?
Gasoline raced past $3 a gallon for a while, stimulating small-car sales and popping the S.U.V. bubble; Merrill Lynch noted that cars gained market share, at the expense of trucks, for the first time in 25 years.
Real estate funds have blown past the broad market for a while.
She sat across from me, an attractive Latina woman with an underlying edge, and after staring past each other uncomfortably for a while we struck up a conversation.
"Where you've seen similar recalibrations in the past, it takes a while for people to adjust," said Mike Riley, the general manager of the Professional Game Match Officials Board, although the hope is that the message's clarity will limit any disruption.
We drove in silence for a while, past truck after truck being loaded with apples.
We drive around town for a while, past my school, the hobby shop.
