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"before the dark" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when referring to a time period or event that will occur before a period of darkness, either literal or figurative darkness. For example, "We need to finish this project before the dark sets in."
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Before the dark times.
Before the dark times, before the Empire".
Summer Before the Dark is published by Pushkin Press (£12.99).
Moviegoers complained on social media when they saw the trailer before The Dark Knight Rises.
But it doesn't take long before the dark undertones of his idealised world... become apparent".
McGahern had published his first novel, The Barracks, in 1963, two years before The Dark.
That was long before the dark, care home days of double incontinence, shouting and confusion.
We were praying that the snow would arrive before the dark period hit us.
Summer Before the Dark intimately explores Zweig and Roth's co-dependent friendship.
For some wider context, we can turn to Volker Weidermann's captivating new book Summer Before the Dark.
And that's before the Dark Lord himself crawls from his murky puddle to host the Jeremy Kyle double bill.
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