Example sentences of "[noun pl] ahead of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the dry-out farm , Tunney had moved down to the border , mooched around in cantinas for a while , then left the country two steps ahead of the sheriff of some Rio Grande jerkwater . |
| 2 | More generally , therefore , an employee 's initial idea may be several steps ahead of the present state-of-the-art and yet be too far removed from practical and profitable application to be of immediate benefit . |
| 3 | DANCING for joy or dancing for fitness , pupils at a Darlington school are two steps ahead of the rest of the nation . |
| 4 | At the holding point we selected flap fifteen , exercised the airbrakes out and back again ( they take a second or two to run each way ) , zeroed the tail trim , turned on the heaters for the twin pitot heads ahead of the windscreen and checked the cockpit for red lights , any of which means no-go . |
| 5 | Although the thinking behind the switch was unclear , foreign currency experts believe institutions are anxious to square their books ahead of the election , fearing that , whatever the outcome , the next government will adopt narrow bands for sterling . |
| 6 | For a membership fee of £1.50 you will * receive priority booking privileges ahead of the general public * be able to take part in various social events organised by the Club * be able to join our volunteers who support the theatre in various publicity activities * gain free membership of The Stage Door Club |
| 7 | Conflict between nationalist parties ahead of the Georgian Supreme Soviet elections due on Oct. 28 , centring on plans to pre-empt those elections with an independent poll on Sept. 30 for a rival National Congress , erupted into violence on Sept. 18-19 . |
| 8 | Labour would continue to increase the tax liability on company cars ahead of the inflation rate . |
| 9 | The project remains eight months ahead of the committed 72-month programme . |
| 10 | Suddenly Morse stopped , his mind once more six furlongs ahead of the field . |
| 11 | Nobody in the Olympic 400 metres hurdles final could hold a candle to Gunnell 's superb technique , which put her head and shoulders ahead of the field . |
| 12 | Nobody in the Olympic 400 metres hurdles final could hold a candle to Gunnell 's superb technique , which put her head and shoulders ahead of the field . |
| 13 | Roberto played beautifully in the third round and we progressed to two strokes ahead of the field after he shot a 67 . |
| 14 | A confident Tom Kite shot a bogey-free 65 to move two strokes ahead of the field after the fourth round of the Bob Hope Classic in La Quinta , California . |
| 15 | Advance tapes suggest that it 's leagues ahead of the rather dull ‘ Thaw ’ Housefrau superstar LYDIA LUNCH meanwhile has been recording with pathological monsters OXBOW for their LP ‘ King Of The Jews ’ , which should be out in January when they 're set to return to the UK for another series of dates . |
| 16 | Advance tapes suggest that it 's leagues ahead of the rather dull ‘ Thaw ’ Housefrau superstar LYDIA LUNCH meanwhile has been recording with pathological monsters OXBOW for their LP ‘ King Of The Jews ’ , which should be out in January when they 're set to return to the UK for another series of dates . |
| 17 | Tensions ahead of the referendum boiled over on Aug. 17 . |
| 18 | 1993 has started well with deliveries ahead of the same period last year and ahead of budget . |
| 19 | Observers speculated that it offered Gorbachev 's conservative opponents probably their last chance to influence policy as a credible force in the central committee : in recent weeks a grassroots party revolt had toppled the conservative leaderships in several regions and cities , including Tyumen in West Siberia , Chernigov in the Ukraine , and Volgograd in southern European Russia , while conservatives were facing a rout in the forthcoming local soviet ( council ) elections ( in which party leaders had been encouraged to stand ) and in elections to party posts ahead of the 28th CPSU congress . |
| 20 | If printed in time tickets may be available a few days ahead of the programme from Henley and Twyford booking offices . |
| 21 | The Prince 's envoys had returned to Aber from the latest of the long-drawn conferences with the King 's representatives , two days ahead of the battered remnant from Parfois . |
| 22 | Next month , the trade starts to build up stocks ahead of the grass starting to grow in March . |
| 23 | The BAe 1000 , claimed by BAe to be two years ahead of the competition , will be able to fly up to 15 passengers direct from London to the West coast of the US , Rio de Janeiro or Singapore with one stop-off . |
| 24 | The 1750s were the years of the Glasgow Academy of Fine Arts , jointly supported by the University and Glasgow businessmen , a brave adventure ten years ahead of the Academy in London . |
| 25 | As David Trippier from the Department of the Environment said , this is two-and-a-half years ahead of the schedule laid down by the Montreal protocol — and the government would have liked it even faster . |
| 26 | In fact , immediately upon accepting the Treaty of Rome , the Benelux states agreed in substance in February 1959 to a new treaty of economic union , beginning in January 1960 and to last for 50 years , several years ahead of the Rome programme . |
| 27 | 'We are years ahead of the competition . ’ |
| 28 | Labour is pledged to freeze carbon dioxide emissions at 1990 levels by the year 2000 ; that is five years ahead of the Government 's pledge . |
| 29 | The EC Council of ( Environment ) Ministers agreed on Dec. 21 , 1990 , to ban the use of CFCs by June 1997 , three years ahead of the deadline agreed at the June 1990 London conference on the Montreal protocol on the protection of the ozone layer [ see p. 37552 ] . |
| 30 | The elimination of the final barriers came five years ahead of the schedule agreed in the Closer Economic Relations agreement signed in 1983 . |