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| Kenneth G. Wilson (1923–). The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. 1993. |
| in excess of |
| is a cliché, sometimes criticized for being pretentious when around or near is available but often useful when numbers are big, round, and vague: The deficit had grown to a number somewhere in excess of [around, near] a hundred million dollars. | 1 |
| The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. Copyright © 1993 Columbia University Press. |
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