Outpaced
outpace (verb) - run or move faster than others
inflation outpaces wages
inflation in Y outpaces the general rate of inflation
outpaced its rivals
easily outpaced Y
outpace a pack of hounds
outpace your average snail
tortoise-like negotiations outpaced the snail-like progress of Y
reforms which outpace public opinion
a company outpaces other companies in the industry
a company outpaces other companies on cost and quality
expansionist ambitions outpace financing ability
the growth of X will outpace that of Y
outpaced by events
the increase in the value of imports outpaced that of exports
the value of imports over the year outpaced exports
net revenue has outpaced growth in costs
Example sentences:
* "Wages were generally unable to keep up with steeply rising food prices, while Mathias, pointing to rising money wages as a feature of the period, concludes that inflating prices generally outpaced them."
* "The inflation rate of book and manuscript prices continues to outpace the general rate of inflation and this year's increase in Purchase Grant.
* "You invest in the equity market to provide yourself with a stream of future dividends which will hopefully outpace inflation."
* "The company had outpaced its rivals in winning subscribers."
* "The increase in the value of imports outpaced that of exports and the trade deficit increased."
* "We want to grow in those areas where we are strong and our growth in the 1990s will outpace that of the 1980s by a significant amount."
* "As the peso's purchasing power lessened, its international exchange value did not depreciate correspondingly, with the result that the value of imports over the year outpaced exports."
* "As a result of the remits we have ensured that growth in net revenues, inevitably small given the recession of the last three years, has outpaced growth in costs, thus reversing the unacceptable trend seen prior to the programme."
* "The torpid staff in the company's local office showed no inclination to outpace your average snail."
* "It certainly is true that the foreign trade organisation's tortoise-like negotiations outpace the snail-like progress of Soviet machine building, but it cannot be a thrilling race."
* "There is always a risk that legislative reforms which outpace public opinion will be undermined by reaction."
* "Recent developments illustrate well how some companies do outpace others in the industry on both cost and quality."
* Businesses will have to remain in financial balance and take great care that their expansionist ambitions do not outpace their financing ability."
* "It is a system in which those with the biggest moneybags automatically outpace others of greater experience, imagination, talent and future potential falls short of perfection too."
* "We were told he could outpace a pack of hounds and catch a fleeing fox with ease."
* Income has been outpaced by prices this year.
* "The pound outpaced a buoyant dollar, closing well above yesterday's high."
* "Even on real GNP per head, Britain outpaced West Germany in the 1980s."
* "The company's expansion outpaced its earnings this year."
* "On a tiny budget, Marrakesh had outpaced London, New York, Los Angeles, and Tokyo."
* "He easily outpaced her."
* "Data suggest that reductions in infant mortality rates after the war outpaced those before the war."
* "A few weeks on the Prime Minister looks depressed and frustrated: entangled in legal thickets, trapped in diplomatic elephant holes, waiting ignominiously on the Americans, watched warily by continental Europeans, outpaced by events."
* "As population grew and harvests failed more often, attitudes towards the poor hardened, especially after the food crisis of 1795 when even firmly rising rents were outpaced by the soaring poor rate."
* "There is a need to ensure organisational change doesn't outpace cultural change: that devolution doesn't proceed until experience in managing budgets is complemented by experience in discussion financial issues honestly with users and providers."
