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Exports' Rise Surpassed by Imports' True, manufacturing is rebounding from its recession trough, and exports are growing.

From BusinessWeek • May 6, 2010

Surpassed in numbers only by the famed Bermuda races, the Honolulu event was inaugurated in the same year.

From Time Magazine Archive

Surpassed themselves, of course, my dear Burke; and so has the Emperor too.

From Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume II by Lever, Charles James

From Agni,119 Nila bright as flame, Who in his splendour, might, and worth, Surpassed the sire who gave him birth.

From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)

From Agni, Níla bright as flame, Who in his splendor, might, and worth, Surpassed the sire who gave him birth.

From Hindu literature : Comprising The Book of good counsels, Nala and Damayanti, The Ramayana, and Sakoontala by Arnold, Edwin, Sir