Food security seemed assured and consumption exceeded production only in five years in this period, none leading to serious shortages.

If you're concerned about gaining fat, make sure that your total caloric consumption does not exceed what you expend.

-maximum demand tariff cheaper electricity on the understanding that consumption does not exceed, say, 10 kW at any time.

Per capita consumption of corn in Mexico exceeds 260 pounds a year, which is roughly 3,600 tortillas, or 10 tortillas a day.

The rats developed the habit of drinking water during these intervals, but their consumption far exceeded what was expected.

"But if consumption exceeds disposable income, the savings rate would be negative" - and Americans are getting close to that point, he said.

With the high demand, the consumption of wood for fuel exceeds the renewal of forest cover.

At the start of 2010 iPhone data consumption exceeded Android's by a factor of four.

However, when consumption of any commodity exceeds supply, famine results in respect to that commodity.

Of course, so-called 'overpopulation' is a very convenient and attractive scapegoat to those whose consumption massively exceeds the poorest people.