The phrase "and were perhaps able" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to suggest a possibility or uncertainty regarding someone's ability to do something in the past.
Example: "The team worked hard on the project, and were perhaps able to meet the deadline despite the challenges."
Alternatives: "and might have been able" or "and could possibly have been able".
Increased expression of angiogenic (IL8) and growth factors (Erbb2) could also lead to a more aggressive cell type that is perhaps able to escape the cytotoxic effects of the drug.
Levy was perhaps able to write that off in part as something City could do to anyone - see Arsenal's 6-3 loss at The Etihad on Saturday - but the hapless shambles against Liverpool was never going to be excused.
I'm perhaps able to get away with it, where maybe presenters would be a little harsher on elected politicians".
I drew attention to Choi Chi-won, the great Korean diplomat of the Silla Dynasty who used culture as a mean to reinforce relations between the two countries, and was perhaps uniquely able to play a central role in policy in both countries.
We are perhaps better able and more willing to take a clear view of the underlying arguments and emotions when the history being recessed is not our own.
And if they don't have the ability to finance that at a reasonable cost, then all of the sudden their profit margins are going to get squeezed and they're perhaps not going to be able to hold as much inventory, and this is happening around the globe," said Jim Hannan, managing director for fixed-income strategy at MTB Investment Advisors in Baltimore.
Poetry is perhaps the instrument able to play more parts of a life at once.
This population is perhaps the least able to cope among the 3.9 million refugees now outside Syria [ 16].
"Mexico is now perhaps able and willing to play a role on the world stage that it has not always been able to play in the past," he said.
The deep perspective offered by professional historians, he said, is an essential public good in a world where "every politician would have us forget what he said yesterday," and too few journalists are willing (and perhaps able) to cry foul.
