The phrase "alternatively we were" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when presenting an alternative option or scenario in a discussion or argument.
Example: "We could take the train to the city; alternatively, we were considering driving if the weather permits."
Alternatives: "on the other hand, we were" or "as another option, we were".
Alternatively, we're told that we don't have to dwell on past abuses, because we won't repeat them.
Alternatively, we are "mutton dressed as lamb" (I hate that phrase) for daring to reject an established age-acceptable dress code of cardigans and sensible shoes.
Alternatively, we are seeing this galaxy as it existed only 0.41 billion years after the Big Bang, which makes it very young considering the Universe is only 13.7 billion years old.
And so what we're not going to do is put ourselves in a position where in order to pay for spending that we've already incurred that our two options are we're either going to profoundly hurt the economy and hurt middle-class families and hurt seniors and hurt kids who are trying to go to college or, alternatively, we're going to blow up the economy.
Alternatively, we are also studying a solution based on OpenVPN [33] and a concept based on secured data transport using TLS [34].
Alternatively, we're bound to become depressed as we get older because life becomes a steady stream of losses ranging from widowhood to retirement and, ultimately, our own mortality.
Alternatively we are not sure whether some signals remain under the detection limit.
Alternatively, we are proposing a new concept of pulsatile CAD based on a fundamental revision of the entire circulatory system in correspondence with the physiopathology and law of physics.
Alternatively, we are likely to reduce VT to less than 6 mL/kg PBW long before Pplat reaches 30 cm H2O in nonobese patients with small effective lung capacities.
Alternatively, if we were able to identify facial expressions in animals that are associated with pain as in humans [28] then a fixation on the face of an animal may actually increase the effectiveness of pain assessment that is based upon such expressions.
