<script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8">  
   $(document).ready(function() {
 
    // Identify this question
    var thisQuestion = $('question{QID}');
 
    // Assign a class to the question
    $(thisQuestion).addClass('with-preceding-labels');
 
    // Move the labels
    $('li.answer-item', thisQuestion).each(function(i) {
      $(this).prepend($('span.input', this));      
    });
    });
</script>

.numeric-multi.with-preceding-labels span.input {
  padding-left: 0;
  padding-right: 5px;
}