be ahead

Based on statistics and sample sizes alone, that means either candidate could be ahead.

If I said all the things that have been said before about Hitchcock, you’d be ahead of me and guess what’s happening next, and we probably wouldn’t be speaking now.

Mr Marshall, 48, does not want to know yet if he has Huntington's, saying: "I would sooner not know and not have a fear of what might be ahead if I do have it."

How does a rival do it in a manoeuvre where the cars are more or less side by side, one might wonder, if he is highly likely to brake so late he will always be ahead at the apex, to ensure he complies with that requirement, and then force them wide?

“If you’re the proponents, if you had to choose one side, you‘d rather be ahead among women,” he said.