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"begun as" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to indicate that something started as one thing and then shifted into something else, or that a certain behavior or development started at some point in the past. For example, "Our friendship began as colleagues but soon blossomed into a deep bond."
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The nightly protests had begun, as had requisite gunfire.
Filming was to have begun as early as this spring.
Public-housing initiatives have begun, as well as a model micro-finance programme.
In southern Poland, anthropogenic deforestation of some slopes, and consequently washing processes, begun as early as 5 ka.
These efforts would have begun as early as 2002.
The DCCC intrusion could have begun as recently as June, two of the sources told Reuters.
It was a ritual I'd begun as soon as Garrett was buried.
Efforts had begun as early as 1911 to procure arms and smuggle them into India.
Planning for the second contingent had begun as soon as the first contingent had deployed.
Calls by the legislature for Magoffin's resignation had begun as early as September 30 , 1861
Washington's recent water quality troubles may have begun as early as November 2000.
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