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• supply: The global demand for oil is likely to outstrip supply within the next 10 or 20 years.

• inflation: Choose your level of risk, then, as property and share prices reliably outstrip inflation, watch your investments compound and grow.

• demand: World supply of bananas has outstripped demand at the price necessary to sustain such a level of supply.

Noun phrase with adjective complement

• due: Adverse environmental factors outstrip supportive factors due to removal of organisms from their natural environment.

Modifying Another Word

• far: These sums can far outstrip the amount of damages awarded.

• vastly: Jobs are limited and supply of potential workforce vastly outstrips demand.

• soon: Competition for decreasing oil reserves from the expanding economies of Asia means that demand will soon outstrip supply.

• massively: The money I earn is outstripped massively by my debts, I can't even make minimum repayments.

• consistently: This landmark would have been reached earlier as demand has consistently outstripped supply, but they are working at capacity.

• easily: The £ 6.2 million awarded across 368 cases in 2004 easily outstripped the £ 4.3 million paid the previous year.

Preposition: by

• demand: Instructions to let property continued to grow at a steady pace but have been outstripped by tenant demand for the eighth consecutive quarter.