The phrase 'rank before' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to suggest that something has a higher ranking or importance than something else. For example, "In terms of importance, education should always rank before entertainment."
Table 9 AHP rankings of cybershake seismogram synthesis tasks Rank Before AHP After AHP 1 Task 5 Task 26 2 Task 3 Task 20 3 Task 9 Task 18 4 Task 7 Task 28 5 Task 20 Task 09 6 Task 22 Task 22 7 Task 11 Task 07 8 Task 24 Task 03 9 Task 16 Task 16 10 Task 26 Task 05 11 Task 14 Task 24 12 Task 28 Task 11 13 Task 18 Task 14.
Under Army regulations, four-star generals must serve three years in that rank before they can keep it in retirement, but the president can waive the rule.
And each is wary of undermining the No campaign by breaking rank before the close-of-polls at 10pm on Thursday night.
In addition to Mr. Taylor, the new Eagle Scouts, all of whom earned the rank before they turned 18, are Christopher Bopp, Michael Scanlon, Brian Stoddard, Brian Nichols, Matthew Monaco, John Gelcich, Nicholas Zobler, John Robertson and David Santucci.
According to "Schörner's orders," military police — bloodhounds, the lot of them — were to go after soldiers without marching papers and haul them, no matter what their rank, before mobile courts-martial as malingerers, cowards, and deserters.
Fox became the first senior Conservative to confirm he will definitely push for a British exit on Sunday, in a move that could pave the way for other Tories to break rank before Cameron has finished his Brussels discussions.
On the Nielsen Bookscan charts, the volume debuted at rank 39 before quickly climbing to the 14th spot.
Retrieval accuracy measures the ability of a method to find true positive matches and rank them before false positives matches.
Most of the top-5 ranking genes still kept their relatively high ranks before r mod score calculations.
WellPoint has broken ranks before.
Labour has had racists in its ranks before.
