However, inevitably a report of this nature is rapidly overtaken by events.

It is no wonder that the developing world is rapidly overtaking you.

Some digital products are rapidly overtaking the conventional ones.

By the 1850s, the new technology of railroads was rapidly overtaking the canal systems in many areas; it provided access to additional places.

We were rapidly overtaking a bus which was indeed thundering along in the very centre of the narrow road.

Nestor rubbed at his eyes: exhaustion was rapidly overtaking him.

A police car was rapidly overtaking the terrorists, scattering traffic as drivers pulled aside to let it pass.

We role-reverse quite naturally, as you might imagine with people whose children are rapidly overtaking them in the social maturity stakes.

And he doggedly maintained his sixty-four as the other car rapidly overtook them, passing on their left.

It rapidly overtook them, passing overhead just as Fox Island came into view a mile and a half away.