Startups and large corporations alike boast about the volume of data they've amassed, ranging from terabytes of data to quantities surpassing all of the information contained in the Library of Congress.
It follows, then, that a greater number of goods is a greater good than one or than a smaller number, if that one or that smaller number is included in the count; for then the larger number surpasses the smaller, and the smaller quantity is surpassed as being contained in the larger.
From the 1540s, when a new method of extracting silver from ore with the use of mercury was discovered, silver mining became a major industry in both Mexico and Peru, and silver shipments in rapidly increasing quantities soon surpassed the earlier gold shipments in value.
When quantity of added water surpassed 10%% the conversion yield again decreased.
Bulbing onions are day-length sensitive; their bulbs begin growing only after the number of daylight hours has surpassed some minimal quantity.
Meanwhile, prolific growers in California surpassed the state years ago in the quantity of chile peppers harvested from its fields to become the nation's No. 1 producer, according to statistics from the federal Agriculture Department.
Patients whose urine protein ≥++ and confirmed >1.0 g by the 24 h quantity or cumulative doses of doxorubicin and epirubicin before inclusion have surpassed 300 mg/m2 and 600 mg/m2, respectively, were also excluded.
Recent reports have demonstrated that the extent of diseases caused by A. baumannii is expanding and, in a few cases, now surpasses the quantity of infections caused by P. aeruginosa.
48 50 The high levels of household food insecurity among Dutch food bank recipients, and the number of people who qualify for food assistance surpassed the supply, raising the question of whether food banks are able to supply the right quantity or nutritional quality of foods.
China surpassed America's total meat consumption long ago in 1990 and is chomping through ever-bigger quantities as the country becomes richer (see tiny chart, right).
