exceeded

• It celebrated the fact that some production quota or other had been exceeded, and the room was full of Pryors and their minions. —  Dozois, Gardner ; Strahan, Jonathan - SSC - The New Space Opera (v1.0)
• Instances have certainly occurred where this depth has been exceeded, a Liverpool diver named Hooper having descended as far as thirty-four fathoms, if my information is correct; but this was quite an exceptional circumstance; and, as I have said, fifteen fathoms may be taken as the average depth at which a man can move about and work in comfort. —  The Log of the Flying Fish A Story of Aerial and Submarine Peril and Adventure
• When that capacity is exceeded, as we have noted, too much of the stream's oxygen is used up by the process of decay and the stream, which is an intricately complex work of living things, begins to die. —  The Nation's River A report on the Potomac from the U.S. Department of the Interior
• They presented his case with an ability which could not be exceeded, and they added to the general estimate of his intellectual faculties and resources. —  Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 (of 2) From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860
• But already that limit has been exceeded, and each day brings us nearer to the time when it will be thrust outward in every direction with an effect of enormous relief So far the only additions to the foot and horse of the old dispensation that have actually come into operation, are the suburban railways, which render possible an average door to office hour's journey of ten or a dozen miles--further only in the case of some specially favoured localities. —  Anticipations Of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human life and Thought

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