The phrase "and hence were likely" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate a conclusion or inference drawn from previously stated information.
Example: "The results of the experiment were inconclusive, and hence were likely to require further investigation."
Alternatives: "and therefore were probably" or "and thus were likely".
In addition, mechanoinsensitive fibers that were responsive to chemical stimuli and hence were likely afferents, exhibited conduction slowing in response to a single twin pulse.
Cluster analysis identified fifteen KAP-β subfamilies that, except XPO6 in Archaeplastida, are represented in all eukaryotic supergroups, and hence were likely present in the LECA.
In several domains the decline was around 5 points on the norm based scale and hence were likely clinically significant.
More aggressive tumours had an increased risk for fracture, and perhaps already carry a worse prognosis, and hence were likely to have a worse outcome.
These are some of the variables that were found to have changed the most during the 1988–2003 and hence were likely to be associated with the upsurge in infant mortality [ 6, 7].
Table 1 also includes information on number of protein kinase-like sequences lacking the catalytic base residue (aspartate) and hence are likely to be non-functional as kinase.
Moreover, most Pygmy-like groups around the world dwell in tropical forests [52], and hence are likely to have iodine-deficient diets.
The council's projections are murky extensions of the present, and hence are likely to be as amusingly off the mark as the cities of the future based on the models of late-19th-century industrialization or Art Deco style.
Zinc oxide (ZnO) nanoparticles are one of the most frequently used nanoparticles in industry and hence are likely to be introduced to the groundwater environment.
Second, Philolaus' book seems to have been available to Aristotle's pupil Meno (DK 44 and–8) and hence is likely to have been available to Aristotle as well.
There is ample evidence demonstrating that the Spanish population is shorter and hence are likely to weigh less than the US, the UK or German populations [58].
