But the scale of last year's flooding surpassed these previous deluges, with 45 square kilometres of land submerged. |
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The maritime supremacy of the Norse, however, was destroyed and surpassed by the cities that belonged to the Hanseatic League. |
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Hammett was Raymond Chandler's acknowledged master, but as a sheer stylist the student surpassed the mentor. |
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In her first month of production her sales-commission numbers surpassed my first year. |
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Playwrights, actors and audiences alike constantly surpassed themselves, and it's something I now always strive for in my work. |
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On the last day of the week-long spam count, the spammers have really surpassed themselves. |
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It surpassed itself this year with red neon dragons strewn across the buildings. |
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I have surprised, amazed and surpassed myself, and have therefore signed up for the next one which is in Blackheath in July. |
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The bumper crop sharply surpassed the 280,000 tons the industry annually sells. |
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The swingometer, meanwhile, has been surpassed by on-screen polls, tracking audience reaction to speeches in real time. |
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Jason surpassed the speed limit in the city by fifty miles with Steven in the back seat holding me. |
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Hunt's acquisitive instincts far surpassed anything the Sublime Porte had in mind when it granted the firman. |
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His loathing of Moguls surpassed even his detestation of Uzbeks, Shias, Afghans and assorted infidels. |
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This decades-old machine has long since been surpassed by bevatrons and linear accelerators. |
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However the damages and injuries from the accidents so far this year surpassed those of last year. |
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California has already surpassed its water allotment and has begun drawing down water levels from reservoirs along the river. |
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Some racegoers even thought yesterday's racing had surpassed June's Royal Ascot meeting. |
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Are we to believe that in the rational future, these works will be surpassed by works exalting happiness and denigrating self-sacrifice? |
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By 1932 world production surpassed 23,000,000 bales, of which the U.S. portion was 13,000,000, glutting the cotton market. |
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At its height the rioting far surpassed any worst-case scenario that senior police officers had been planning for since the middle of June. |
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The commendations awarded to his officers publicly recognise that they have not only met these challenges but surpassed expectations. |
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With subsequent control of the boll weevil, cotton cultivation has increased but has not surpassed peanuts as the primary cash crop. |
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The professor could only be called a cockalorum because his diminutive size was only surpassed by his enormous ego. |
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Kawasaki disease has surpassed rheumatic fever as the leading cause of acquired heart disease in children in the United States. |
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This one's long gray coat seemed aged and worn, his sleek muscles still giving off hints that his age greatly surpassed all here. |
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But, for many of my female classmates, their desire to succeed as lawyers was surpassed by their fear of being seen as unfeminine. |
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To Asser, Offa was an imperialistic bully whose progeny alone surpassed him in unsavoriness. |
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We should think that in the gusto of form and a noble freedom of outline, Michael Angelo could hardly have surpassed this figure. |
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The Sydney audience for the New Year's Eve crackers easily surpassed the news broadcasts by Nine in the week. |
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With ridership that quickly surpassed expectations, they also brought in profits. |
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The Qianlong Emperor surpassed his predecessors as a patron of Buddhism and Buddhist art. |
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Thus, 100 countable individuals was a targeted minimum that was easily surpassed in many samples but not achieved in others. |
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In many cases, its playable image quality surpassed the GeForce 6800 Ultra thanks to its superior fill rate and memory bandwidth. |
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Its commerce, both overseas and coastwise, surpassed all other American ports. |
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In the darkest days of the Dark Ages, no superstition surpassed this one for silliness, fatuousness, or just plain ignorance. |
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This was my first time baking rugalach, and this recipe surpassed my expectations. |
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Indeed, for the first time ever, cable surpassed free TV in prime-time viewing share last year. |
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Both votes surpassed the three-fifths majority necessary for a veto override. |
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It was only surpassed by nervousness and bed-wetting, which can equally be interpreted as expressions of anxiety. |
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Of the eight players chosen ahead of Stoudemire, none has surpassed his production. |
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The rubbery consistency was surpassed only by the amount of sediment in the liqueur. |
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Our staff of highly skilled engineers and toolers surpassed even their own imaginations. |
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Now the ever progressive York gallery has surpassed itself by presenting an exhibition by Annie Halliday that utilises neither camera nor lens. |
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Jackie Stewart was always quick off the mark, but this time he has surpassed himself. |
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The forward-thinking people at the Town Hall have surpassed themselves with the speaking lifts in Lurke Street car park. |
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Once again, he surpassed himself with his third album, composing some of the most complex melodies that will still touch you to the core. |
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This great annual event, now in its 177th year, really and truly surpassed itself with a display of all that is good in the countryside. |
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No wonder some critics think that Shanghaiese are not ready to see a Pina Bausch show because they have not surpassed the stage of merely appreciating linear narrative. |
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What would the relations between the generations be like if there never came a point at which a son surpassed his father in strength or vigor? |
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Akira has a well deserved reputation for being one of the most detailed works on animation ever and Otomo has easily surpassed his earlier work here. |
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Still, in loveliness, this utility sinfonietta is not surpassed by many. |
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There are wonderful drawings demonstrating how the variety of graphic style which Rubens commanded surpassed that of arty high renaissance artist. |
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The film's incredibly bad storyline was only surpassed by the poor acting. |
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However, this season has surpassed even that of last term, with East Stirling very much the punter's friend if looking for a banker for the fixed odds coupon. |
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However, they were later surpassed in this role by certain fish, notably the placoderms, a highly diverse group that sported interlocking plates of armor. |
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I think we have really surpassed even our own expectations in this regard. |
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The British military said it believes a lance corporal surpassed all previous records with one pull of the trigger. |
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Their comeback would have been the second-greatest in NFL history, only surpassed by Buffalo in the 1993 Playoffs. |
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Its computational power has now surpassed the five petaflops mark. |
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Although deeply appreciating the undesirableness of following one whose scholarship is only surpassed by his genius, I found myself unable to refuse. |
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America's coffee capital, Seattle, is now the most unwired US city, having surpassed last year's winner San Francisco, the high-tech jewel at the tip of Silicon Valley. |
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He's SO cringeworthy, he's surpassed the point that defines comedy. |
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Game hunting in South Africa has flourished into a multi-million-rand industry and the Eastern Cape has surpassed all the other provinces in its success. |
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In western Tennessee the heat index has surpassed 100 degrees. |
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The two of them frequented the salles d' armes of Paris for a while, and some say that while he at first was her tutor in swordplay, she soon surpassed him. |
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But just as the petrol engine overtook the trams and the telephone surpassed the telegraph, it now seems the mobile is set to conquer the landline. |
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In his secular life, which included working in sales and store management, he surpassed himself, but always found that the work lacked spiritual fulfillment. |
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You have truly surpassed yourself in all manner of possible ways! |
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Anticipating the visual world of television, it surpassed even the condensations of the news weeklies and digest by summarizing in photographs instead of in text. |
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Two 4th-cent. writers ascribe to the later emperor Trajan the view that Nero surpassed all other principes for a quinquennium, apparently referring to the first five years. |
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One effort was an adulatory poem, Le Siecle de Louis le Grand, in which he claimed that Louis XIV's world equalled, and surpassed, that of the ancient world. |
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With two films to his name, a third in the can and a fourth in pre-production, the prolific 28-year-old has already surpassed the work-shy Malick's 30-year tally. |
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Yet the choreographer, while living a little lazily in the Russian-American's shadow, had areas of choreographic eloquence that matched, and some would say surpassed, him. |
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In the graph below, the annualized rate of new home construction is shown to have surpassed the two surges of the 1970s when inflation was out of control. |
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It literally riveted the attention of a nation, black and white, for a full week and has never been surpassed in the ratings for a multi-part drama. |
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Since it has only been surpassed once in basketball history, it may well have been a once-in-a-lifetime performance. |
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In the 1st quarter of 2009, the GNP of Norway surpassed Sweden's for the first time in history, although its population is half the size. |
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From the mid 18th century it was the world's most powerful navy until surpassed by the United States Navy during the Second World War. |
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As of 2012 Tomatoes surpassed soy as the most profitable crop in Virginia in 2006, with peanuts and hay as other agricultural products. |
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As petroleum production in the US peaked during the 1960s, however, the United States was surpassed by Saudi Arabia and the Soviet Union. |
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However, this does not mean that potential oil production has surpassed oil demand. |
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Roman aqueducts set a standard of engineering that was not surpassed for more than a thousand years. |
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He surpassed his rival Sir Joshua Reynolds to become the dominant British portraitist of the second half of the 18th century. |
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Handel secured a balance between soloists and chorus which he never surpassed. |
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As of 20 February 2017, Craig is the second longest serving James Bond, surpassed only by Roger Moore. |
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This attendance was surpassed 13 years later by the decisive match of the 1950 FIFA World Cup, but remains a European record. |
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That record stood until 1994, when it was surpassed by Brazil's three goals in seven games. |
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In 2006 Renault was Britain's third most popular brand, surpassed only by Ford and Vauxhall. |
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Taylor's victory and sixth title in 1998 meant that he had surpassed his mentor Eric Bristow's haul of five World Championships. |
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On 22 August 2014, Yes Scotland announced that the one million target had been surpassed. |
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It was the largest from 2004, when ten countries joined the union, to 2014, after which it was surpassed by the United States. |
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While London was still a global centre of finance, it had been surpassed by New York, and was in danger of falling still further behind. |
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By 1790, New York had surpassed Philadelphia as the largest city in the United States. |
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The metropolitan area surpassed the 10 million mark in the early 1930s, becoming the first megacity in human history. |
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He surpassed countryman Mike Gibson in the first round of the 2012 tournament against Wales. |
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Today, eBay has surpassed auctions in terms of highest volume of sales of banknotes. |
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This bridge held the record for longest span in the world for seventeen years, until it was surpassed by the Quebec Bridge. |
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Port Talbot would eventually become the biggest exporting port in Glamorgan, and the second largest in Wales, only surpassed by Milford Haven. |
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On 12 December 2009, Giggs' surpassed countryman Gary Speed's outfield record of 535 Premier League games. |
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On 6 March 2011, Giggs surpassed the Manchester United league appearance record of Bobby Charlton by playing his 607th game against Liverpool. |
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At the beginning of 2011, Indonesia produced 3 million tonnes of seaweed and surpassed the Philippines as the world's largest seaweed producer. |
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In the Mediterranean, Italy used to report the largest catches, but has been surpassed by Egypt in recent years. |
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Similarly, it is the second port in Spain as regards ship traffic, only surpassed by the Port of Algeciras Bay. |
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Madeira is the second richest region of Portugal by GDP per capita, only surpassed by Lisbon. |
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Bristol was surpassed by the rapid rise of Birmingham, Manchester and Liverpool in the Industrial Revolution. |
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In May 2013, it was reported that readings for CO2 taken at the world's primary benchmark site in Mauna Loa surpassed 400 ppm. |
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In the middle of the 17th century Sweden was the third largest country in Europe by land area, only surpassed by Russia and Spain. |
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The interwar period saw a rapid growth in the city's population, which surpassed one million inhabitants. |
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At its peak in 1988, it was the largest producer and second largest exporter of crude oil, surpassed only by Saudi Arabia. |
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These improvements continued into the 1960s, when the life expectancy in the Soviet Union surpassed that of the United States. |
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Numerous cities worldwide surpassed populations of a million or more during this century. |
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Their role in providing silver was gradually surpassed by the Spanish, while even the Dutch challenged them for control of this trade. |
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This created issues as Medieval knowledge surpassed the knowledge of these ancient physicians. |
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Fernandes's marker was only surpassed ten years later, in 1456, by Alvise Cadamosto, a Venetian explorer in Henry's service. |
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In August 2010 Mexico surpassed France to become the 9th largest holder of US debt. |
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Later Huancayo, increased in importance and surpassed Jauja as a commercial centre. |
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In 1861, the number of inhabitants surpassed 100,000 and by 1927, had doubled. |
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Transatlantic flight surpassed ocean liners as the predominant mode of crossing the Atlantic in the mid 20th century. |
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In 1564 Mercator published his map of Britain, a map of greatly improved accuracy which far surpassed any of his previous representations. |
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The polar bear is among the most sexually dimorphic of mammals, surpassed only by the pinnipeds such as elephant seals. |
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Britain eventually surpassed India as the world's leading cotton textile manufacturer in the 19th century. |
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The former problem student surpassed his instructor's expectations and scored top marks on his examination. |
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First of all, both beckham and Halliwell have surpassed the 40-year mark. |
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Matric has surpassed that pledge by creating 64 new jobs and retaining 204 existing employees. |
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Full of genuinely funny moments and ludicrous brain-teasers, they have surpassed many expectations. |
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He also stressed that the 24-year-old player has already surpassed Kobe Bryant and is now the next two-way shooting guard in the league. |
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The highlight of the issue was that the sales of VoIP business telephone lines surpassed that of TDM business telephone lines. |
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The number of ATMs across the country has surpassed 70,000 for the first time, the UK's cash machine network Link has reported. |
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Dramatic changes occurred in the high-temperature thermoplastic resin industry as Asia Pacific surpassed North America in consumption. |
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Recently, our total tons of coal production for Q1 to Q3 surpassed the 100,000 tone mark, at 110,000 tones. |
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We may be launching it in a museum, but this is no museum piece and will not be surpassed for many years to come. |
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The first divines of New England were surpassed by none in extensive erudition. |
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It was the seventh time Brenner has surpassed 20 kills this season, and it was her 13 double-double. |
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The folk outfit momentarily surpassed hippyish accusations and seemed to fit the ornate surrounds. |
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The maddening nature of the punishment was reserved for Sisyphus due to his hubristic belief that his cleverness surpassed that of Zeus himself. |
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Teradyne's FLEX Test Platform, which just surpassed its 1000th unit shipment, advances test technologies in an architecture designed for high-efficiency, multisite test. |
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And while old-school punkers may argue that CB's influence could never be surpassed, it is not the only venue with a permanent place in music history. |
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The maddening nature of the punishment was reserved for King Sisyphus due to his hubristic belief that his cleverness surpassed that of Zeus himself. |
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For instance, CB1 on glutamatergic neurons constrain the expression of fear responses, once the averseness of the test situation has surpassed a certain threshold. |
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Pumpkin ale may have surpassed Octoberfest as America's fall seasonal of choice, but we still have a soft spot for the traditional German autumn harvest style. |
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By the end of the first quarter of 2008, China has surpassed the United States of America in terms of the number of netizens, and has become the largest in the world. |
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Delhi Metro recorded the highest ever ridership figure of 21, 95,999 on August 1, which surpassed the earlier record set on July 23, when 21, 26,763 people traveled by Metro. |
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The Red Ryder may have paved the way, but the performance of today's airguns has far surpassed the lever-action and pump-pellet guns just a few decades ago. |
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In 1984 Australia surpassed the US as the world's largest coal exporter. |
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In 2012, China surpassed Japan as the world's largest luxury market. |
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Until recently, France had for centuries been the cultural center of the world, although its dominant position has been surpassed by the United States. |
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In the 1880 Census, Atlanta surpassed Savannah as Georgia's largest city. |
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Since World War II the importance of heavy industry has greatly diminished, and the Flemish Region surpassed Wallonia in wealth as Wallonia declined economically. |
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Ronan O'Gara of Ireland holds the career scoring record with 557 points to Wilkinson's 546, having surpassed Wilkinson in Round 3 of the 2011 championship. |
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Along with Hong Kong, South Korea, and Taiwan, Singapore is one of the original Four Asian Tigers, but has surpassed its peers in terms of GDP per capita. |
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Swansea's population was later overtaken by Merthyr in 1821 and by Cardiff in 1881, although in the latter year Swansea once again surpassed Merthyr. |
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The number of attacks from January to September 2009 had surpassed the previous year's total due to the increased pirate attacks in the Gulf of Aden and off Somalia. |
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He was unable to complete qualifying and his existing laptime was surpassed by all other competitors during Q3, thus he qualified in tenth position. |
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But her fame as an author far surpassed his fame in archaeology. |
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A milestone was reached in the United States according to results of the 2010 census, as women surpassed men in attaining master's degrees, for the first time. |
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The beauty of the madrepores and corallines, of which the finest specimens are found in the recesses of the Bay of Tappanuli, is not to be surpassed in any country. |
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As trade from the West Indies surpassed that of Ireland and Europe, and as the River Dee continued to silt up, Liverpool began to grow with increasing rapidity. |
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This success was not surpassed until the 2015 general election. |
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