Sentence examples for set to overtake from inspiring English sources

China looks set to overtake it by 2015.

This year, print and digital subscriptions and sales are set to overtake advertising as a source of revenue.

It is set to overtake the US next year as the world's biggest box office, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

Yet efforts to keep a lid on India's population, which is set to overtake China's by 2030, are still carried out via more subtle policies.

Robert Mueller, the F.B.I. director, asserted that cyberattacks were set to overtake terrorism as the No. 1 threat to U.S. security.

Google is set to overtake Facebook in earning money from display ads, making it the leader in all three types of digital advertising — search, mobile and display.

Yesterday was the hottest day nationally since records began, with an average maximum of 40.33C – 104.6F – and today looked set to overtake it once calculations were completed.

China is set to overtake the United States this year as the largest online shopping market in the world, according to Forrester Research.

Indeed, add in Japan and total Asian domestic spending (at market exchange rates) looks set to overtake America's next year.But what of emerging Asia's longer-term prospects?

Thailand was set to overtake the United States last year as the world's largest maker of one-tonne pick-up trucks.

She is now widely viewed as the world's most powerful woman, and set to overtake Margaret Thatcher as Europe's longest-serving elected female leader.