lag behind

Why does the U.S. lag behind our peers when it comes to educating our students?

If girls continue to lag behind in STEM areas, our future economy and competitiveness could suffer.

In other words, perhaps she knows deep down: yes, women still lag behind in the corporate world.

I think though that the entertainment culture does really lag behind the culture at large.

Owing to its inertia, it would thus tend continually to lag behind the particles of matter about it.

They invariably keep up, and oftener come out ahead than they lag behind.

But in France good news travels faster, and it is the evil tidings that lag behind.

And when the first horseman pulled up, thinking to lag behind, the second did likewise.

There is service to be done and honor to be gained, and you would lag behind because of a wrenched ankle!