Its Avon bid was something of an aberration, as none of its deals have surpassed more than about $1 billion.
No. 3 was the news of Casey Anthony's acquittal in the killing of her daughter, Caylee, 2. At No. 4, Charlie Sheen's well-documented problems surpassed conversation about the death of Steve Jobs.
The fall-out from the UK vote to leave the European Union over the weekend seems to have surpassed just about what anyone could ever have foreseen, with mass resignations from shadow cabinet, a leadership rift among the Conservatives, reports of racism fuelled by the result, concerns voiced in China and Japan over the threat to the global economy, and oh so much more.
In clinical practice, this success can be surpassed: in our clinic, about 25% of patients are in SDAI remission and only about 5% are in high disease activity [ 68]; this is in line with findings that most patients in today's clinical practice do not fulfill entry criteria for clinical trials [ 69].
In Japan, where female life expectancy at birth reached 86 years in 2007, the number of the oldest old surpassed 3.6 million, or about 2.8% of the total population in 2009, a 322% increase since 1990 [ 3].
The number of tweets about Hoffman surpassed the number of tweets about the Super Bowl less than thirty minutes after the news of his death broke, but within ninety minutes, by 3 P.M., the Super Bowl had regained supremacy on Twitter.
However, it would appear that more recent events have surpassed British confusion about what should and should not be capitalised.
He said all expectations of the success of the Olympic Torch Relay had been surpassed as excitement about the games passed from person to person like a "benign sort of virus".
He wanted to talk about the females who had surpassed all expectations - about Mom's Command, whom he had bred for Runnymede Farm, and his daughter Abby, who rode Mom's Command into the thoroughbred racing Hall of Fame, and, I suppose, about me too, the woman who had written this prize-winning racetrack novel.
Last year, she raised money for the book on Kickstarter and surpassed her funding goal by about $12,000.
