exceed

Object

• expectation: In little over a month the campaign has more than exceeded expectations with 6,000 of the wristbands already snapped up.
• limit: The soft limit can never exceed the hard limit.
• threshold: The award will be based on how much your income exceeds a certain threshold.
• meter: Any trailer attached to the Vehicle must not exceed 7.6 meters in length.
• maximum: For some units, a second tour would mean they would likely exceed that two-year maximum.
• amount: The total claimed cannot exceed the amount of the original gain.

Subject

• amount: The target for the number of formal warnings issued for anti-social behavior was set at 4,000 and this was exceeded by a significant amount.

Adjective complement

• 30m�: Garage Must be detached and not exceeding 30m² in floor area.
• 30m: Porches or conservatories with a floor area not exceeding 30m 2.
• 3m: If any part of the deck construction exceeds 3m in height.
• most: His dives against Argentina exceed most of those listed.

Modifying Another Word

• far: Supermarket profits by far exceed the incomes of all the farmers in the UK.
• greatly: The ratios greatly exceed findings around ' non-combustion ' urban sites.
• rarely: Welfare Committee distribute the bursaries, which rarely exceed £ 50.
• not: Our set up fee will not exceed 25 % of total net invoice value.
• vastly: The number of public transactions that involve local authorities vastly exceeds those that involve central Government.
• significantly: The forecast for the full year, however, was likely to exceed significantly the £ 76k budget surplus.

Used with why or when

• what: He also exceeded what I would have considered a manager's responsibility - on the last day, Peter wasn't well.

Preposition: by

• margin: The reason is that running costs normally exceed by a significant margin the actual purchase price.
• amount: The target for the number of formal warnings issued for anti-social behavior was set at 4,000 and this was exceeded by a significant amount.