"overtake" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- In the space of two decades Germany rapidly overtook Britain in industrial output.
- So far, real estate has been the leading form of direct investment, with Japan recently overtaking Britain as the number one foreign landlord.
- Within a decade, Japan had overtaken Britain.
- Is he a symbol of the violence overtaking Britain and the world?
- If Japan's lending had continued to expand at the same pace as in recent years it would have overtaken Britain in 1992.
- Other societies were able to follow, catch up with and overtake Britain because they could emulate its achievements.
- The remarks suggested a profound cultural change that has overtaken Britain since the 1950's and 1960's when the medical profession was rarely challenged to explain itself in public.
- The United States overtook Britain as the biggest importer of vintage port in 2002.
- By the late 1890's, the United States overtook Britain as the largest coal producer and inherited some of Britain's labor problems along with the title.
- The US overtook Britain as the largest economy in the 1870s, but the dollar didn't truly displace sterling as the world's anchor currency until the 1930s.
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