The phrase "a while and thereby" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It seems to attempt to connect two ideas, but the use of "thereby" is inappropriate without a clear antecedent or context.
Example: "I waited a while and thereby missed the bus." (This example is not ideal due to the initial issue with the phrase.)
Alternatives: "for a time and thus" or "for a while and as a result".
And sometimes the best way to deal with one's problems is simply to get away from them for a while, thereby giving new perspective.
This procedure constantly supplies fully loaded LOHC molecules while heating and thereby mimics the conditions of the TPMB experiment (see below).
A man who had been checking his mobile phone while driving on a rural road, and thereby caused a horrific crash that killed 28-year-old solicitors' clerk Rachel Titley, has been jailed for six years.
This chi-square minimization process was carried out while simultaneously varying, and thereby optimizing, a range of other model parameters such as washout rate, particle deposition rates, photo decay rates, and intersection distance.
This may provide a clarification and elaboration of socio-material activities, issues and situations while video recording, and thereby provide more in depth and elaborated information of e.g. reasons behind specific clinical work practice.
Redistributing tasks among health worker teams through broader delegation (task-shifting), can increase technical efficiency, while maintaining quality, and thereby improve access and affordability [ 28].
- USA Today reported this week on the police giving tickets to a 20-year-old from New Jersey named Dan Langley for having a heart attack while driving, thereby causing a minor traffic accident.
Kepler-8 was named the way it was because it is home to the eighth planetary system confirmed during the course of the Kepler Mission, a NASA-directed program tasked with searching a region of the sky for terrestrial planets that transit, or cross in front of (and thereby, for a while, make dimmer) the stars that they orbit with respect to Earth.
The Afghan president, Mr. Karzai, said the election had shown the American people overcoming distinctions "of race and color while electing their president" and thereby helping to bring "the same values to the rest of the world sooner or later".
While it is fiction and thereby not bound to truth, Adichie's story is certainly not a fulsome one.
