"present ahead" is a perfectly acceptable phrase in written English.
It can be used as a way to refer to a situation that is emerging or about to unfold in the near future. For example, "The present ahead looks uncertain for the economy."
Root, meanwhile, has been handed an early present ahead of his 22nd birthday on Sunday.
This is far from the image that the city hoped to present ahead of the expected arrival next year of about 10,500 Olympians, 4,400 Paralympians and 480,000 tourists.
Aged 64, she is still young enough for a bid in 2016 and is, at present, ahead of any of her rivals in terms of standing and popularity inside the party.
Just great: Now your spouse can veto your present ahead of time rather than taking it back for an exchange the day after Christmas.
The intrusions formed during both hold periods were much longer than those present ahead of the (growing) dynamic crack (∼1.5 μm) and consisted of layered oxides in the thermodynamic sequence of CoO, NiO, Cr2O3, TiO2 and Al2O3.
Don't wrap the present ahead of time, especially if it's not adequately labelled.
Send presents ahead if you can.
Rather, ship presents ahead, or if you must carry them, wrap them on arrival; one suggestion was to pack flat-folding gift bags and tissue paper for doing so.
The impeccably cast crew – Simon Pegg as Scotty and Karl Urban, superb as Bones McCoy, to name but two – were presented ahead of time as real characters with their own back stories and the movie delivered on its promise.
"Leaders Number One", a perfume inspired by Putin, went on sale in Moscow on Thursday, just in time for Russians to pick them up as presents ahead of New Year's Eve, the major festive occasion here.
(My mother told me that when she was a girl she secretly unwrapped her Christmas presents ahead of time and then rewrapped them and placed them back under the tree. The reason for this was that she didn't trust herself to react appropriately to them. She had to plan in advance what she was going to say).
