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Discover Ludwig"there was then" is a perfectly correct and acceptable phrase to use in written English.
It is usually used to indicate a sequence of events. For example: "She had never seen snow before, so when she arrived in the mountains there was then a sense of awe and wonderment as she watched the snowflakes drift down from the sky."
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What a roar in the House there was then.
Zawahiri, a student there, was then seventeen, but he was already involved in clandestine Islamist activity.
Despite that longstanding sense of inequality, there is no more sentiment today for populist revolt than there was then.
(PT2, female) Yes, and you could feel there was then more cooperation.
There was then a lengthy procurement process.
There was then a brief pause.
"There wouldn't be an issue, but there was then.
"There was then an explosion, a blast," the notes said.
And if there was, then why did it die out?
There was then a flurry of half chances.
There was, then, a real ecosystem of othermen in southern Siberia.
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