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Total US payrolls reached 138.5m in May, surpassing the country's previous peak level of employment set in January 2008.
The goal was Johnson's 13th of the playoffs, making him the franchise leader in playoff goals, surpassing Brad Richards who plays for the Blackhawks now, but won the Conn Smythe trophy as the playoff most valuable player a decade ago when the Lightning last raised the Stanley Cup.
The total household debt to income ratio, including mortgage debt, is projected to reach around 172% by 2020 – surpassing its previous peak in the runup to the financial crisis.
However, the controversial Iraq war biopic American Sniper became the highest grossing film of 2014 at the North American box office, the film's $337m total surpassing the $336.9m haul taken by The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1. Clint Eastwood's Oscar-nominated film also passed $500m worldwide.
But America will proceed serenely to production of almost 11m barrels of oil a day in 2014, surpassing Saudi Arabia and rivalling Russia.While pressure to lift the ban on American oil exports intensifies, most American liquefied-natural-gas projects many designed to ship burgeoning shale-gas supplies to Asia will be awaiting approval.
According to Nielsen the number of paid texts per subscriber has grown rapidly over the same period, recently surpassing 700 per month.
According to the IMF, net inflows of private capital to emerging economies have surged to almost 4% of their GDP on average this year, surpassing the peak of the previous wave in the first half of the 1990s.
But by 2050, China's old-age ratio will have risen fourfold to 42, surpassing America's.
By the end of the 19th century it had a population of 1m, surpassing all others in the United States except New York.
Sport is about sharing, surpassing oneself, exchange, respect.
The Frankfurt exchange, which failed in its attempt last year to merge with the LSE, will be valued at up to euro3 billion ($2.8 billion) when it floats just under a third of its shares.Merrill Lynch, an American investment bank, led the "bulge bracket" with fourth-quarter profits of $877m, up by 11% over the previous year; and profits for the year up 41%, surpassing analysts' expectations.
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"Surpassing" functions as a present participle, often used to describe an action that results in exceeding a certain standard or limit. According to Ludwig, the phrase is usable in written English. It often modifies nouns, adding detail and emphasis to the degree of exceeding.
Expression frequency: Very common
