Sentence examples for spent ahead from inspiring English sources

However, only £100m of this will be spent ahead of the General Election, including £50m already pledged to roll out the scheme in pilot areas.

Personal fortunes are being lavishly spent ahead of the Illinois primary on March 16th, but the Obama fundraiser is a low-budget affair, with attendees paying $50 each to rub shoulders with Mr Terkel, eat pizza, and hear Mr Obama say that "ordinary people can do extraordinary things when they're given an opportunity".Mr Obama hopes to prove that money is not everything.

Durand has built a reputation for spectacular but usually fruitless attacking, to the extent that France's leading cycling magazine, Velo, runs a "Jackymeter", a tally of the number of kilometres he has spent ahead of the bunch in his various breaks.

In fact, Flurry itself reported something similar earlier this year, when it found that Facebook app usage on iOS and Android devices accounted for a whooping 18% of time spent, ahead of games, web browsing, productivity apps, news apps, utility apps, and entertainment apps, among other things.

Critics contend it will give the state more scope to borrow and spend ahead of elections in 2015.

I gave the girls some money to spend ahead of Christmas and Amy came back with a lovely blue dress.

It is likely to cause Japan's economy to contract for a quarter, as people who rushed to spend ahead of the increase guard their cash afterwards.

After the snow hampered festive trading, retailers have rolled out an avalanche of hefty discounts to get consumers spending ahead of VAT rising to 20 per cent on 4 January.

After ramping up spending ahead of October's election, the government posted a fiscal deficit of 8.5% of GDP last year, financed in part by mortgaging some of its future oil output to China.

There is important context here – the Fraser of Allander's headline was part of a budget report, setting out the challenges to spending ahead of the Scottish government's financial statement.

Latest feedback from UK media buyers suggests ITV's first quarter net advertising revenue could grow by 11.8% (previously 6.5%), driven by pricing inflation and skewed government spending ahead of the election.