Sentence examples for then existing from inspiring English sources
"then existing" is a grammatically correct phrase and can be used in written English
It is typically used to describe something that existed at a particular time in the past. Example: The law only applies to contracts that were then existing at the time it was passed.
And if it does not exist, then existing theories of physics will have to be scrapped.The latest evidence that dark energy really does exist was produced on December 16th by Alexey Vikhlinin, of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and his colleagues.
Colonel Pohl said that to the extent the question was a legal one, he owed deference to the judgment of the executive and legislative branches that "the United States government had simply been slow to recognize the existence of a state of hostilities then existing between the United States and Al Qaeda and its affiliates and franchises".
Then existing subways needed repairs.
By then, existing hybrids could have been bought for not much more than £300,000.
He enrolled at Dartmouth, class of 1963, where, as a freshman, he broke the then existing passing records for quarterbacks.
According to him, the other sects then existing in Japan misunderstood the truth, and he vehemently denounced them and the government that supported them.
Fire worked; it was convenient, and it did wonderful things when measured by then-existing lifestyles.
When Medicare was enacted in 1965, the calculations about its future costs and ways to finance it took into account then-existing life expectancy and technology.
Recognizing the inadequacy of then-existing laws, the U.S. Congress passed the first comprehensive federal legislation specifically addressing human trafficking, the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (TVPA).
A lawyer for Mr. Daugerdas said, "Paul Daugerdas firmly believes that the tax advice provided to his clients was well within the scope of then-existing federal tax law".
All of this makes you downright nostalgic for 1998, when J. K. Rowling sold the film rights to both of the then-existing Potter books — the movies have since grossed more than $3.5 billion internationally — for a sum in the low seven figures.
