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.