The phrase "and thus started a" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate the beginning of an event or process as a result of a previous action or situation.
Example: "The discovery of the ancient artifact was significant, and thus started a new era of archaeological research."
Alternatives: "and consequently initiated a" or "and thereby commenced a".
It was a great box office success despite its limited production costs and thus started an industry trend, inspiring countless other comedies such as Porky's, the Police Academy films, the American Pie films, and Old School among others.
You think you're getting a whole track like this, but suddenly the tempo slows down by degrees and thus starts a minute of super-slow vamps; then, for three entire minutes, nothing but rumbling static.
On Tuesday, the US Federal Aviation Administration said it had identified fuel-line assembly errors in the Dreamliner that could result in leaks onto hot engine parts and thus start a fire, cause engine failure, or simply see the plane run out of fuel.
Established as an independent expert advisory panel, the TRP assesses requests for funding from countries, presents its recommendations to the Board for final decision, and thus starts a financial relationship between the organisation and those receiving funds.
It is important to note that the studies retrieved through the literature review were mostly observational and thus started at a 'low' level of evidence quality.
Both authors are academics working in a Higher Education Institution, and thus started fieldwork with an outsider perspective.
In 1906, Antoine discovered a spirituality he called a "new spiritualism", which led him to definitely give up Spiritism, to decide to heal by faith alone and to perform only collective healing in a temple, and thus started to lay the foundations of a structured religious movement.
Thus started a bond of comradeship between those who would later meet at the metropole.
As a reaction, Food Records pushed the release of "Country House" back a week and thus started what became known as 'The Battle of Britpop'.
And thus started the stroller pushing, carry-on baggage only travels of our family.
