Sentence examples for were outstripped from inspiring English sources

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were outstripped

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To outrun or leave behind.

  • We quickly outstripped the amateur runners.

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The mobile satellite company's £1.2m audit fees to Deloitte were outstripped by £1.9m for other work, including £1.3m for tax advice.

In his summary of his trip, he concludes: Established structures and their respective functions were outstripped by another kind of operating and making use of the city.

When Model T sales were outstripped by Chevrolet's low-end car (which came in a choice of colors), he stubbornly insisted that "the Model T is the most perfect car in the world".

They were outstripped by the cost of chicken thighs, which rose by 60%.

Most of the tanks still operational were outstripped but some caught up the infantry.

New tools were brought in to speed up the harvesting of ice, but these efficiency improvements were outstripped by technical advances in plant ice manufacture.

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His flickering chamber of horrors was outstripped or refuted by personal experience.

The appetite for walk-in wardrobes and wet-rooms is outstripped, however, by demand for the hajj.

But the state of the union itself could yet be in the hands of radicals whose eagerness to see the president fail is outstripped only by their zeal to make an ideological point, even if it forces America into default.

"The rising cost of an average UK funeral is very concerning; it's outstripped inflation considerably for many years –almost in line with house price rises, which as we know continue to rise rapidly as demand outstrips supply,"  Royal London funeral cost expert Simon Cox said.

This explains why Heidegger says that death is disclosed to Dasein as a possibility which is "not to be outstripped" (Being and Time 50: 294).

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