"before the exposure" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is most often used in the context of an exposure to something that can have adverse effects, such as an environmental or health hazard. For example, you might say, "We took extensive measurements before the exposure to ensure there was no associated risk."
Like I said before, the exposure I would have gotten wasn't worth it to me.
"My basic approach to photography depends on the visualization of the final print before the exposure is made," Adams said.
This takes place before the exposure, and the probe is then moved out of the way.
Greater offence However, the real damage of News of the World-style journalism had been done well before the exposure of its reporters' reliance on illegal voicemail interceptions.
He too believed that the final image should exist in all its completeness before the exposure was made and that it should be an unmanipulated record.
Reflex cameras (and increasingly also view cameras) therefore incorporate a mechanism that automatically or semiautomatically stops down (reduces) the lens to the working aperture immediately before the exposure.
But two years before the exposure of Fleet Street's methods rocked the British body politic, Morgan didn't disagree that that phone-tapping and other 'down-in-the-gutter' tactics might have been employed in attainment of sensational scoops".
Mr. Passaro is being prosecuted by the office of the United States attorney in Raleigh, Frank Whitney, a decision that Mr. Ashcroft said was made early this year "before the exposure generally of the allegations about the prison in Iraq".
When he read reports about ITV's planned Savile documentary, Paxman asked Rippon to run a Newsnight report about the disgraced presenter as soon as possible, the day before the Exposure documentary's broadcast or even the same night.
One of the many unpleasant aspects of television in the 1960s and 1970s – even before the exposure of the criminally predatory nature of several key presenters – was that there was generally more concern, among viewers and reviewers, about what was known as "bad language" than offensive attitudes.
Not only is it a gorgeous word for the mouth to shape and sound out, but it conjures all kinds of hazardous historical excitement before the exposure of street lighting and iPhone torches – bandits on the highway, yellow-eyed long-clawed creatures stalking their prey, and, of course, lyrical lovers roamin' in the illicit murk.
