Sentence examples for qualifier ahead from inspiring English sources

A crowd of 18,234 witnessed Lafferty's goals and strikes from Steven Davis and Jamie Ward, as well as a San Marino red card, as Michael O'Neill's side avoided any drama in their World Cup qualifier ahead of Tuesday's tie with Germany.

After years of sweat, bloodied noses and swollen eyes, Jonas is edging closer to that landmark aspiration as Great Britain's representative at the one and only Olympic qualifier ahead of two of the country's other leading lightweights.

Thanks for that Uefa link, a handy scene-setting overview of the European World Cup qualifiers ahead of the weekend games.

Brazil, meanwhile, whose ranking had suffered by not playing competitive qualifiers ahead of hosting next year's World Cup, have gone back into the top 10 following their Confederations Cup triumph, up 13 places to ninth.

Semenya booked her place in Saturday's final as the fastest qualifier, just ahead of Russia's Elena Arzhakova [1 58.13] who finished second in the same heat.

Arsenal have secured their 18th consecutive top-four finish - and a place in next season's Champions League qualifiers - ahead of their final match at all-but-relegated Norwich.

"These are teams that finished ahead of us in the T20 qualifiers before Christmas," Wright told BBC Scotland.

With about 700,000 fans, it ranks behind 42 automatic-qualifier schools — but ahead of 27 of them.

His Scottish compatriot John Higgins, the triple world champion, will resume today 6-3 ahead of qualifier Stephen Lee for the concluding session of their first-round match.

Canada — Boris Baran, John Carruthers, Arno Hobart, Fred Hoffer, Don Piafsky and Joey Silver — led the qualifiers and was just ahead of Brazil, 73 imps to 68.

Expect the 2013 quarter-finalists to get an invite to the final party, with qualifying tournaments in Europe, Africa/Middle East and the Americas in 2016, with a set of entry criteria enforced ahead of qualifiers for RLWC 2021.