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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 only by the Belle H�l�ne is the Grande Duchesse de G�rolstein.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880. by Various

No Niagara's vast glories have we, No Bridge spanning River as wide as a sea;         Yet we have a county         Whose soil, for its bounty, Surpassed is by none in this clime of the FREE..

From The Emigrant Mechanic and Other Tales in Verse Together with Numerous Songs Upon Canadian Subjects by Cowherd, Thomas

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