Sentence examples for a shade ahead from inspiring English sources

That gave it a 9.95% stake - a shade ahead of the second biggest holder, the billionaire Joe Lewis.

An early opinion poll put her Kadima party a shade ahead of the main opposition party, the right-wing Likud, led by Binyamin Netanyahu.

So far, "against all" seems to be running in fourth place, with around 4%, a shade ahead of Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the far-right populist xenophobe who heads the oddly-named Liberal Democrats.

The latest opinion polls put Ms Livni a shade ahead of Binyamin Netanyahu, leader of the right-wing Likud party, with Ehud Barak of Labour far behind in third place.Until a new government is sworn in, usually after a further month or two of post-election haggling, Ehud Olmert will remain in office as prime minister.

Iyad Allawi, a secular Shia who won the most seats last time (a shade ahead of Mr Maliki) mainly with the backing of moderate Sunnis, slumped to 21, while Osama al-Nujaifi, parliament's Speaker, now generally considered Iraq's leading Sunni within the political system, got 28.

Not one member of a YouGov panel held earlier this week could name the SNP leader, the Guardian reported, but by the end of the evening Google data showed that the sixth most searched question was: "Can I vote for the SNP?" Survation tied Mr Cameron and Mr Miliband on 25 per cent and ICM put the Labour leader a shade ahead on 25 per cent to the Tory Prime Minister's 24 per cent.

Even playing a slide whistle in a half chorus of "Sobbin' Blues," he demonstrates a sense of time — the attack an exquisite shade ahead of the beat — that, at this date, was utterly individual.

His coming in only a shade (less than a percentage point) ahead of Jerry Brown on Sunday in Maine, which usually follows the example of New Hampshire, didn't do him a lot of good.

Its GDP per head is ahead of Portugal, a shade behind Greece and five times bigger than its neighbour Egypt (see chart).Still, Israel is suffering with the rest of the world.

Go ahead and try it, you're only a shade away from being perfectly bronzed.

Bopara has been preferred in the 15-man squad ahead of Samit Patel, who can consider himself a shade unfortunate.