The orchestra responded in kind to each timbre, but the whole — very minimalist, very repetitious — didn't exceed the sum of its intriguing parts.

I have never witnessed a team so thrillingly exceed the sum of their parts.

If your savings exceed this sum, the lifetime allowance, you face a 55 per cent tax charge if you withdraw it as a lump sum.

The $50 would be chosen to exceed the sum of all money spent in the previous 2- or 4-year election cycle.

However, while the collective set of capacities of individuals ultimately translates into the organisational and institutional capacity, the latter by far exceeds the sum of the capacities of their members.