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get one's nose in frontManage to achieve a winning or leading position: she got her nose in front at the eighth hole...- Denmark in front did just enough to hold onto the lead and it was only in the final 10 metres that France managed to get their nose in front and seize second spot from Germany by a whisker.
- As boats moved through the half way point France had managed to get their nose in front of Latvia with Russia, Belarus and Greece matching each other stroke for stroke.
- But it was Germany that led from the start and Great Britain never managed to get their nose in front.
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