I back Hamilton to nose ahead of Adlington on the final straight.
He is in front somewhat by default, having nosed ahead of a modest group of players who have not stood out in any particular way this spring training.
S&N said operating profits from the group's half-share in Baltic Beverages Holding, Russia's market leader, had nosed ahead of profits from its core UK business.
Overall, CNN has nosed ahead of MSNBC in the audience that most matters to the news channels — viewers between the ages of 25 and 54 — though MSNBC still has more total viewers.
Philip Sohm of the University of Toronto, who studied the number of publications devoted to both artists during the last 50 years, found that since the mid-1980s the Baroque painter has started to nose ahead of his Renaissance rival.
A recent survey found that nearly one in three Germans would in principle be willing to vote for the Pirates; they even nosed ahead of the Green Party in several opinion surveys as Germany's third most popular party.
Bracewell then cleaned up both Peter Burgoyne and Mark Footitt, two more reserves in this unimposing but combative Derbyshire side, and may have just nosed ahead of Neil Wagner in the contest for a spot at Lord's.
We can say, though, in no vainglorious way that there is indeed a case that they are the most riveting ever staged, that at the end they nosed ahead of the style and flamenco snap of Barcelona in 1992 and the wonderful swagger of Sydney eight years later.
Airbus has also enjoyed several years of extended sales of its venerable A330, a medium-sized long-haul jet with a great reputation for reliability and a modest sales tag.This has allowed Airbus to nose ahead of its rival last year in the wide-body market where Boeing has long led, thanks to its 747 and its best-selling twin-engined 777.
But ever since surprising themselves (and everyone else) by winning 600 seats in the local government elections a couple of months ago, things do seem to have been going their way.The latest evidence for a revival of sorts is that for the first time since a blip during fuel-tax protests three years ago, the Conservatives have nosed ahead of Labour in the opinion polls.
"They hit and threaten each other") simmered but did not boil over as comradeship in adversity just nosed ahead of hormonal self-indulgence while they figured out a way to get to school (taxis, though never booked in time), feed themselves (takeaway pizza evolved into overcooked roasts) and stop the house stinking (take the bins out).
