Sentence examples for to inch ahead from inspiring English sources
After they flashed over the 1500m-line in unison, it was only in front of the roaring galleries that the home crew began to inch ahead.
Craig Barlow birdied the last three holes to inch ahead of Steve Lowery and claim the third-round lead yesterday at the International in Castle Rock, Colo.
In Illinois, where they're also still counting votes, Pat Quinn, the incompetent Democratic incumbent, managed to inch ahead of the surprise Republican nominee, Bill Brady, a career politician who never had much of a career.
The study found that the private-label unit share of the total consumer packaged goods market fell to 17.1 percent in the 52 weeks ended Sept. 9 from 17.3 percent in the period a year earlier, although the dollar value of those products continued to inch ahead.
Silver has Les Miserables chanteuse Anne Hathaway winning the best supporting actress Oscar by a country mile, while he tips Lincoln's Tommy Lee Jones to inch ahead of Philip Seymour Hoffman and Christoph Waltz to triumph in a tight three-way race for the best supporting actor prize.
But Ireland responded to inch ahead through Rory Best's try and the kicking of Jonathan Sexton.
This year Simon Properties' adjusted funds from operations (net income plus amortization and depreciation in excess of necessary fix-ups) are likely to only inch ahead from 2008′s $5 a share.
The Mets manufactured two more runs in the fifth — on a sacrifice fly by Kirk Nieuwenhuis and a run-scoring double by David Wright — to inch further ahead, 3-0.
Plisson converted and booted a 69th-minute penalty to inch France ahead at 20-18, but Kelly Haimona responded five minutes later after Uini Atonio was penalised.
Saudi Arabia, which seemed to be inching ahead on women as ultra-Orthodox extremists in Israel fell backward, dropped its snail progress, refusing to sponsor women on its team for the London Olympics after intimating they could compete.
There is something about his calm conversation with Dan — they cradle glasses of whiskey, in the sunshine — that beautifully dramatizes the slow, corrupted steps by which civilization needs to be inched ahead.
