Common Errors: Than - Then

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Than used to compare or contrast things. Then refers to time or consequence. Than Then And, the waves can be more than^ thirty meters high as they move toward land.
This area is home to more than^ four-hundred kinds of animals and thousands of plants and trees.
The Columbia River was at the center of the new American settlement in Pacific Northwestern territory, then^ known as the Oregon Territory.
Back then^, the holiday was called Decoration Day.
But then^ Sarah Ferguson tells the little girl that she should learn about investing her money.
In the forty years since then^, more than^ one-hundred-sixty-thousand Americans have served as Peace Corps volunteers.