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Usages of chāoguò
为了 这个 标准， 她 每 晚上 写 的 句子 都 超过 十 个。wèile zhège biāozhǔn, tā měi wǎnshang xiě de jùzi dōu chāoguò shí gè.
For this standard, every night the sentences she writes exceed ten.
这 次 考试 至少 要 写 三十 个 句子， 很多 人 最后 写 了 超过 四十 个 句子。zhè cì kǎoshì zhìshǎo yào xiě sānshí gè jùzi, hěnduō rén zuìhòu xiě le chāoguò sìshí gè jùzi.
For this exam you have to write at least thirty sentences; many people ended up writing more than forty.
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