Urban poverty was on the rise, and UN Habitat announced in October that the number of urban slum dwellers had for the first time surpassed one billion.
In 2010 he ranked No 2 in Time's list of the greatest fictional characters of all time, surpassed by Sherlock Holmes.
This summer, unless something changes, the volume of spam messages will for the first time surpass that of e-mail from people who actually know one another.
Renewable energy has for the first time surpassed coal in supplying the UK's electricity for a whole quarter, according to government statistics released on Thursday.
His 1968 book "Yanomamo: The Fierce People" became the best-selling ethnographic work of all time, surpassing Margaret Mead's "Coming of Age in Samoa".
The film has now grossed more than three hundred and twenty-six million dollars worldwide, making it the most successful anime film of all time — surpassing even Hayao Miyazaki's "Spirited Away," from 2001.
This September the number of emergency-room scooter injuries (8,213) for the first time surpassed in-line-skating emergency-room episodes, according to the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission.
BOSTON — With a haul of $12.1 million in the last quarter, Elizabeth Warren has become one of the five most successful Senate fund-raisers of all time, surpassing the amount Hillary Rodham Clinton raised in her first Senate bid in 2000.
They are producing staggering numbers of engineers and scientists, who in turn are publishing lots of papers and acquiring ever more patents.This suggests that Asian innovation will in time surpass America's.
The company now has 36 plants abroad, employing 9,000 people, up from 6,500 workers in 2005 and, for the first time, surpassing the number of Guardian employees in this country.
