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Перевод: outstrip
[глагол] обгонять; опережать; превосходить
Тезаурус:
- Since numbers of children on the streets or living in poor families have increased dramatically over the last decade and the extra resources for the Act's implementation are likely to be strictly limited, demand for services is certain to outstrip supply.
- However, it remains to be seen how completely the principle of antibiosis, or chemical warfare between species, has been exploited, and whether the capacity of microbes to adapt to their environment will outstrip the capacity of man to find means of destroying not only those which are his enemies but also those which are his friends and which he unwittingly eliminates by the overzealous distribution of his new agents.
- Britain's population was ageing; consumer expectations were rising; advances in medical technology continued to outstrip the capacity of the service to fund new developments.
- The two most notable examples are tropical forests (which way outstrip every other habitat) - and coral reefs.
- They could fly above the flak and outstrip most German fighters.
- In this, Salzburg is no different from Bayreuth or Glyndebourne or the fledgling Rossini Festival in Pesaro, where first-night tickets comfortably outstrip Salzburg's.
- Sub-Saharan Africa continued its decline in per capita income, too, for the same reason as the heavily indebted countries - population increases continued to outstrip modest rates of economic growth.
- Alongside their traditional functions (which grow ever harder to explain to a public caught up in the excitement of recent developments), they offer a general reassurance against unpleasant surprises; a brake on events which could otherwise outstrip our power to control them.
- In the Preface of the Octavo Dictionary (1724), Philip Miller remarked that before the beginning of the century this country's preoccupation with trade had allowed the Italians, French and Dutch to outstrip it in horticulture.
- Demand continued to outstrip supply.
- But the problems and discontent of today far outstrip the grumblings heard in 1964.
- The Russian Sputnik had been launched two years before, and produced in the United States a feverish alarm lest their Communist competitors should outstrip them in a world increasingly penetrated by science and technology.
- The use of telex machines increased 7 per cent in the year 1987-88 and the demand for fax machines will outstrip that this year.
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