front rank

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This deal, dubbed US-ELT, would give U.S. astronomers an advantage over Europeans: front rank telescopes in both the Northern and Southern hemispheres.

From Science Magazine • Aug. 31, 2021

After that Mr Ouattara went back on his commitment to step away from the front rank of political life.

From BBC • Oct. 28, 2020

But McNally’s streak of signature plays -- the ones that won him awards and brought him to the front rank of American playwriting -- didn’t begin until 1987, the year he turned 48.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 2020

Mr. Reynolds’s rise to the front rank of stardom was owed almost entirely to his unpredictable and disarming appearances on late-night television with hosts such as Merv Griffin and Johnny Carson.

From Washington Post • Sep. 6, 2018

There at the corner, in the front rank of pedestrians, was a surgeon who had been operating all day.

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut