The phrase "ahead of the current" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate being in a position that is forward or leading in relation to the present situation or context.
Example: "The new technology is ahead of the current trends in the industry, setting a benchmark for future developments."
Alternatives: "in front of the current" or "leading the current".
Journalistically, I felt that the latest issue of Zoo magazine is ahead of the current Nuts.
"She's managed to keep about a day ahead of the current record.
That is well ahead of the current leader, Pfizer's Fort Dodge unit, which has about 20 percent of the market.
The Horrors may need to shake up their sound more radically next time, but Luminous still sounds light years ahead of the current guitar-band pack.
Mr. Roden said he had taken a 6percentt loss by not liquidating sooner, which still put him ahead of the current total market loss.
Quatorze, which opened in 1984 and closed a decade later, was the bistro that showed how a bistro should be done, years ahead of the current bistro boom.
At Eton, he was a year or two ahead of David Cameron, the current Prime Minister.
And Panasonic's aim is nothing else than to become the No. 1 company in the future 3D TV segment, ahead of Samsung, the current leader in the global TV market.
So our job is to make sure that, even though we are a historic property, we are staying ahead of what the current trends are but weighing that against being too flashy".
Specifically, trust in the United States would be as high as in Australia if only 15percentnt of second-generation immigrants in the United States thought that race matters to get ahead (instead of the current 40percentnt, as recorded by the WVS 26.
As OpenStack COO Mark Collier noted when I talked to him ahead of the Summit, the current Marketplace mostly focuses on providing potential users with basic facts about a product (what APIs it exposes, what OpenStack versions it supports, etc).. "This takes it to the next level," he said.
