1.   As labor and rental costs have outstripped inflation, they have been forced to put up their prices.

2.   In recent years, many health plans have pulled out of Medicare, saying their costs outstripped the payments they received from the government.

3.   Prices have dropped so much that production costs outstrip sales.

4.   While numerous labs said that they believed they could get the patent overturned, people in the industry said that the legal costs involved outstrip their ability to pay.

5.   His American-style electoral campaign, whose cost outstripped that of all other candidates, included sea parades and air shows.

6.   Advertising costs should outstrip economic growth for the remainder of the decade, he said.