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Discover LudwigThe phrase "that previously was" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it when you want to refer to something that was true or existed in the past, but is no longer true or exists. For example: "I had a job working in a restaurant, that previously was my main source of income."
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In a first project, America Online's European unit and Banco Santander will each take 40percentt stakes in a venture to take over a Spanish leisure portal, Prodigios Interactivos, that previously was 60percentt owned by the bank.
These PG$E monsters and the Chairman of the PUC, that previously was the President of the Utility Company, should be tried for crimes against nature, children and humanity and then placed in the most secure and hard-time prisons as a token of what they truly deserve.
A chemist can then check if a structure is covered by a patent by doing a substructure search and retrieving a document that previously was not structure searchable.
Chicken sandwiches finally are being let into the burger bar "club". That acceptance is shown in chicken beginning to get the extravagant builds that previously was reserved for beef burgers.
Additionally, we report for the first time the presence of multimeric forms of cpDNA from B. hypnoides, a phenomenon that previously was known only for higher plant cpDNAs.
It has given a respectability to something that previously was just gossip - something less than conversation.
So we ask whether Congress, in changing its language implicitly introduced a geographical limitation that previously was lacking.
Primary succession occurs in a landscape that previously was devoid of life.
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The potential to transform systems and leapfrog infrastructure can enable solutions that previously weren't thought to be possible.
He finally made good on a long-standing request that previously been rebuffed — a USO tour of Vietnam.
One of the differences today is that computers are not merely crunching numbers, but making inferences about the data that previously were the province of the researcher.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak
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