"We believe the sum of the parts would actually exceed the whole."

He had, after all, completed, and actually exceeded, the agreed term of five years.

Their production costs actually exceed those of farmers in industrialized countries.

In 2000, the number of arrests at the event, 312, actually exceeded the total turnout this year.

Indeed, the pledges actually exceed the initial requests for help.

In the three years 1938 to 1940 the US actually exceeded this quota by 10,000.

Sales and production of the 1973 cars (with only two V8s available) actually exceeded 1971 by approximately 1,700 cars.

And net losses of forest resources actually exceed timber harvests.

Having looked up the data again, it appears it actually exceeds the income from fundraising.

The price of oil actually exceeded the 2008 peak last week in sterling terms, as the FT reported.