Although the operation's success exceeded expectations, soon afterward Dr. Kim went to the University of California at Davis for a year to study more about sex change surgery.
The scope of Austen's posthumous success exceeds by several orders of magnitude the ambitions virtually any writer could ever entertain.
As his fund-raising success exceeded all previous records, however, Obama reversed field, declined federal funds, and eventually collected some $745 million in contributions double the total of any previous presidential candidate.
It is now Aveda's best-selling hair care system globally, Ms. Knutson said, adding, "The success exceeded all expectations, and we're now looking at strengthening our relationship with Indian heritage".
Adopting a probabilistic model complicates the definition of plan success: instead of demanding a plan that provably achieves the goal, we seek plans whose probability of success exceeds the threshold.
His success exceeded the market's norms by so much that he became the subject of gossip.
