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Discover LudwigThe phrase "smaller then" is not correct; it should be "smaller than." You can use "smaller than" when making comparisons between two or more items in terms of size.
Example: "This box is smaller than the one we used last time."
Alternatives: "less than" or "not as large as."
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Small businesses don't get much smaller then small presses.
"The art world was so much smaller then," Rainer says.
Apple was smaller then and largely focused on making PCs.
The cultural world – at least the cultural world that mattered – was much smaller then".
Of course, the markets were a bit smaller then than they are now.
"It was closer, smaller then, with less back-biting," he says.
"If we continue to let it get smaller and smaller, then it will be lost.
Trains were smaller then, and so were the men who worked on the tracks.
The world of bloggers was smaller then, and Armstrong's story became something of a cautionary legend.
Baroque music practiced its own kind of globalism in its time, although the globe was smaller then.
(I saw him around town all weekend, trying to get a break with the brothers; New York was smaller then).
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