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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a friend then a" is not correct and seems incomplete in written English.
It could be used in a context where you are contrasting two roles or relationships, but it requires additional information to make sense.
Example: "He was a friend then a mentor, guiding me through my career."
Alternatives: "a friend followed by a" or "first a friend then a".
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In the late 1960's he became a client, then a friend, then a co-conspirator of Mr. Sabarsky.
And so to David Brenteron, the Prime Minister who is first a friend, then a boss, next a chilled out entertainer, and finally a galaxy class hypocrite.
When he and his brother moved to New York in June 1994, he says they sometimes slept in subways and in Central Park when they could not stay with a friend, then a party promoter, who lived in a studio apartment with a girlfriend.
Share with a friend, then a colleague and then a stranger, getting your work out there and brightening their day.
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I spent a night there with a friend, then took a train home.
Here is a good game: blindfold a friend, then play them Kelly.
"After three years of separation we played back this stimulus, and if they heard a friend, then they called out in a friendly voice," he said.
Its British heroine marries a gay American man as a favor to a friend, then makes the madcap move of trying to marry someone else.
These were the now dead Russian wolfhounds she had adopted many years ago, as a favor to a friend, then devoted herself to for the rest of their lives.
You'd think that if Mr. Eisner was going to tape himself having a conversation with a friend, then Ms. Stewart and Mr. Stringer would act a little bit more like his friends.
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