Sentence examples for they were surpassed from inspiring English sources

In the late 20th century they were surpassed by high-technology industries machinery, electrical equipment, and instruments.

But along the way, they were surpassed by a very similar band with the same management, songwriting and production team: 'N Sync.

Over time, the Catholics and other Christians, who were once a majority, clung to power even as they were surpassed in numbers by Muslims.

(As outlandish as those details were, they were surpassed by the sheer physicality of the gentleman in question, a man whose astonishing ranine qualities inspired a wave of Chinese parodies online).

Trains remained the preferred way to travel to the canyon until they were surpassed by the auto in the 1930s.

This is also true of independents, of which the majority were undecided until the latest PPP poll, when they were surpassed by those who feel unfavorably.

They are surpassed, though, by an elegiac reading of his anti-Falklands war song, Shipbuilding, where mordant strings capture the exquisite melancholy.

While there are undoubtedly some benefits to be had by this association, for me they are surpassed by the risk of being overshadowed, outshone and, in some cases, tarred by the overarching interests of the group, potentially causing lack of understanding about a university's offering and dampening its wider profile.

The above regions are projected to experience a decrease in climate extremes under RCP4.5 (Fig. 3; Supplementary Table 3), and for that reason they are surpassed in the ΔESL ranking by South America (Supplementary Table 1); along which is projected one of the highest rises in ηCE.

They are surpassed in both body length and weight only by the trumpeter swan and the introduced mute swan.

Now they're surpassed by Latinos, who have fled the GOP because of its anti-illegal immigration jabbering.