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Example sentences for: lags

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What's more, the white-black marriage rate lags significantly behind rates of white intermarriage with other, nonblack races.
In the browser wars, Microsoft faces a formidable array of opponents--Sun and Oracle, to name just two--and, after two years, it still lags behind Netscape even though IE generally gets better reviews than Navigator.
But Seattle still lags behind its erstwhile rival Tacoma in Chihuly-mania.
SCOP lags behind the PDB in terms of structures processed.
This decision could either be based on the belief that there is inadequate evidence of a long-term mortality effect (although reliance on cohort evidence has been supported elsewhere [ 33 34 ] ) or the belief that long-term effects involve significant lags and near-term benefits might therefore dominate externality estimates.