The phrase "move one step ahead" is correct and usable in written English. You can use it when you want to encourage someone to go forward and to remain one step ahead in achieving their goals. For example: "If you want to make it in this competitive job market, you have to always move one step ahead of the competition.".
"Lawmakers had to move one step ahead of the people and pave the way for more tolerance".
In an attempt to move one step ahead in the design process, a novel sonochemical reactor with a capacity of 7.5 l has been developed and tested using destruction of Rhodamine B as a model reaction.
With this new representation of a PPI network and by categorizing the repertoire of network motifs of the same topology into "motif modes," with each motif mode featuring a special topological combination of molecular functions, we have been able to move one step ahead of what was accomplished by Barabási's group [ 22].
Between his adversaries and his friends, Leon has to move one step ahead; but he's an extremely cool customer.
Fool's Gold: How Unrestrained Greed Corrupted a Dream, Shattered Global Markets and Unleashed a Catastrophe, by Gillian Tett (Little, Brown, £18.99) Financial reporter Tett moves one step ahead of the credit-crunch pack by taking an anthropological view of the societal weaknesses that lay behind it.
It moves one step ahead, designs a "clean energy" economic development zone and invites the developers in!
"I think we moved one step forward.
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