But at this point, Microsoft has not only caught Sony but left it far behind.
Women have not only caught up with men in college attendance but younger women are now more likely than younger men to have a college or a graduate degree.
The death of Princess Diana in 1997 was even an occasion where the scale and intensity of public grief not only caught UK officials by surprise - but threatened to turn Britons against the Royal Family for their perceived remoteness.
Sure, there were exceptions to the rule like Dragon Naturally speaking for dictation and voice command and control, but that really only caught on in vertical markets like legal and medical where the dictionaries were precise and users used headphones to improve accuracy.
Merck not only caught up by skipping a stage of trials (a risky move that often backfires), but its Januvia pill emerged with the entire market for the class when the Novartis drug ran into side effect problems at the FDA and was never approved.
Not that the Calvinist church is the only one caught up in politics.
Unfortunately, Brown is not the only tenant caught off guard.
He said the company began investigating using the eco-friendly plastic six months ago, but that the technology only recently caught up with the high standard he was looking for.
The UK's health expenditure has increased significantly but has only recently caught up with the EU average so we may not yet be seeing the full effects of this additional spending.
Although it was due to fly the friendly skies of Lakehurst, New Jersey in mid-June, Northrop Grumman's usually unmanned surveillance was only just caught floating over the Jersey Shore as part of a maiden flight on August 8th.
To this day, he has a first-class bowling average of 23.43, but in Tests he took just 15 wickets at 45.93, almost all of them early in his career, while his first-class batting average only recently caught up with its Test counterpart.
If, for example, a company is caught only every fifth time it pollutes a river, then when it is caught a jury fixing damages should multiply the value of harm done by five.
Actions by individuals or organisations are caught only if they meet all three conditions.
Undeterred, brave "McLovin" ventures into a liquor store, only to get caught up in an attempted robbery.
The only good behavior caught on the video was Watrous locking the guns up after the shooting.
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Operators cut capital expenditure and offered unlimited, flat-rate plans, only to be caught out when demand finally took off.
Most previous investigations into organised crime in Brazil have caught only minnows.
People who were passing by heard her screams for help and came to help, but Donnelly ran off only to be caught a few hundred yards away.
Cultural tension boiled over when Herod planted Rome's golden eagle atop the Temple's entrance, an abomination to Judaism that made people tear it down only to be caught and burned alive.
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Tocqueville's father, jailed with them, escaped only because the guillotine caught up with Robespierre first.
"It wasn't only UNHCR that was caught unprepared, " Annan said.
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Strasbourg's courts have handed out unusually severe sentences of up to two years' imprisonment to the few young trouble-makers unlucky enough to get caught (only a dozen arrests were made).
Hafeez, by now completely becalmed, tried a forcing shot off Stuart Broad only to be stunningly caught by a plunging Collingwood, Asad Shafiq following next ball, falling to a routine edge.
You know, at the time this was part of the FBI's effort to show that people who were committing mortgage fraud were not only going to get caught, but they were going to get prosecuted too.
Police can currently only warn or prosecute people caught in possession of it.
Only recently has UK spending caught up and overtaken that of Italy.
He looks back fondly on his time at the Moderna Museet in the 1950s, where he started doing things that caught on elsewhere only later.
Velcro was designed as a fastener to replace zippers, but caught on commercially only after proving itself as a way to stop things floating around space capsules.
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