Sentence examples for landed ahead from inspiring English sources

We took off on time, we landed ahead of schedule.

And the plane landed ahead of schedule on both legs of the journey.

But both landed ahead of G I R L, as well as last week's No 1 by Elbow and No 2 by Paloma Faith.

In 1976, during a Libyan-backed coup attempt, President Nimeiry avoided capture when his plane arriving from Europe landed ahead of schedule because of a tailwind.

The commanding officer of the 111th Field Artillery, who had landed ahead of his unit, was killed as he tried to direct the fire of one tank.

The pair joined them on their walk back to the city as gunfire rattled and mortar shells landed ahead of them, a column of dark smoke filling the sky.

The pleas are latest to land ahead of the trial of Mr. Rajaratnam, which is set for Feb. 28.

Greyhounds move so fast, and their backs are so flexible, that their rear paws land ahead of the prints left by their front feet.

Coleman will have trouble beating out hit-or-miss ex-Colt Jacob Lacey, but he can probably land ahead of big-play-oriented (both in terms of giving and receiving, unfortunately) Alphonso Smith on the depth chart.

He spreads his fingers in a circle over his heart and concludes ruefully: "You may land ahead of the technology trajectory, but you land there with a big target on your chest".

That path doesn't exist until you pick one foot up and swing it forward to land ahead of the other, and in the moment your foot makes contact with what was once before nothing -- you find that you've made something.