What does back then mean?

back then

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.75 in modern English

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"On the East and West Coast Main Lines in the 1950s/60s, for example, we saw the extinction of intermediate stations in order to create the same sort of accelerations that IRP is now promising. Back then, the priority was faster main line services, with wayside/intermediate stations paying the ultimate price."

back in the day

back in the day

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