Sentence examples for sitting ahead of from inspiring English sources

But when I was forced into the way-back space, with my 3-year-old daughter sitting ahead of me (thrilled at seeing Dad relegated to the cheap seats), I found that a lone adult rider can fully stretch his legs down the center aisle, making the journey surprisingly comfortable.

Mercedes engines powered Brawn's Jenson Button to the world championship in the recently completed season and the team also claimed the constructors' championship, while Lewis Hamilton, Button's predecessor as world champion, was also sitting ahead of a Mercedes engine in his McLaren.

The book was hovering below 50th place in Amazon.co.uk's bestseller chart at the weekend but by this morning it had moved into seventh spot with two weeks to go before publication, sitting ahead of already published bestselling titles by authors including Dan Brown, Stephenie Meyer and David Nicholls.

Sitting ahead of him in a small folding chair was a woman with long gray hair and a cane across her lap.

Sitting ahead of Macklemore and Daft Punk on the UK's list of most Shazamed songs of 2013 were Austrian duo Klangkarussell with Sonnentanz, a pleasant but unremarkable production showing just how embedded deep house has become as the soundtrack to student life.

Newspoll surveyed 1,616 people from Thursday to Sunday, capturing voter sentiment at the end of the 2015 parliamentary sittings ahead of an election year.

One was the driver, one Mr. Beresford, one the man in the light hat, sitting slightly ahead of Mr. Beresford.

We raise our 2013 estimates by 3% given the better economic data of late together with a slightly more benign currency environment than previously modelled, and we are comfortable sitting 6% ahead of consensus.

Updated at 3.38pm BST 2.56pm BST In the City The financial markets are pretty quiet, with some traders sitting tight ahead of US unemployment data due on Friday, and the  The US and UK stock markets are flattish, while European indices are down, led by the DAX (hit by Fresenius Medical AG, down 8% after warning that the US government is cutting Medicare funding for its kidney dialysis centre).

But there are also two other teams sitting 1 point ahead of the Crew.

In the first year of the new Scottish parliament the SNP has flourished in the polls, currently sitting three points ahead of Labour in Scotland on 36%.