Sentence examples for awards ahead of from inspiring English sources

2005: Voted No 1 in the World's 50 Best Restaurants awards, ahead of Ferran Adrià's el Bulli in Spain.

For three years Eriksen has been sitting comfortably on the Danish football throne but in 2015 Kasper Schmeichel won one of the two awards ahead of his international team-mate at Spurs.

Flowers' popularity was recognised when they were awarded the 1980 TV Week / Countdown Rock Awards 'Johnny O'Keefe New Talent Award' ahead of The Dugites, INXS and Karen Knowles.

Scorsese is also the marginal favourite to win the best director award ahead of Eastwood.

The mighty Bosch also contributed a second penalty and added a try as well to sneak the man-of-the-match award ahead of the outstanding Mouritz Botha, Billy Vunipola and Brad Barritt.

Alexievich led the odds for the 2015 award, ahead of Japan's Haruki Murakami, Kenya's Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o and the Norwegian playwright Jon Fosse.

On Wednesday, Wyld took the £10,000 Encore award – ahead of Eleanor Catton's Booker-winning The Luminaries – for the best second novel with All the Birds, Singing.

" Taylor's fabulous season received the official stamp of approval when he was awarded USA Track and Field's 2000 Jesse Owens award ahead of Maurice Greene, the Olympic 100m champion, and Michael Johnson, the 400m winner in Sydney.

The Coen brothers' Cannes Grand Prix-winning Inside Llewyn Davis picked up another award ahead of the coming Oscars season with victory in the best feature category at the Gotham independent film awards.

Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire enters the contest as a slight frontrunner for the best drama award, ahead of Revolutionary Road, The Reader, Frost/Nixon and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.

Picking up the Golden Icon lifetime achievement award ahead of another screening of Prisoners, Jackman told Screen Daily: "I am doing a role in Neill's new film, called Chappie, which we shoot in Johannesburg.