then vs than

Definitions

adverb

1. at that time
2. subsequently or soon afterward (often used as sentence connectors)
3. in that case or as a consequence

adjective

1. at a specific prior time

noun

1. that time; that moment

Examples

But then on the other hand, the whole cosmos or universe is based on this love or compassion.

The bombardment of the GPO had fascinated MacMurrough: the annunciatory puffs of smoke and the flames that roared to greet them; then the crashing gun’s report, the shell’s eruption—an illogical sequence, effect before cause, an object lesson in the madness of war.

Sometime in the early eighteen hundreds, they trekked to the flat plain between the Ohio River and Lake Erie and settled in Mount Vernon, which was then a few small buildings in a forest of tall trees.

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