Maybo
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For three decades it was a static "ice island". It didn't budge. It wasn't until 2020 that it re-floated and started to drift again, slowly at first, before then charging north towards warmer air and waters.
Source: World's biggest iceberg spins in ocean trap by Jonathan Amos and Erwan Rivault, BBC
I feel like it should be only "then", no before. Or does the sentence mean "before slowly drifted and then charging north"?
Source: World's biggest iceberg spins in ocean trap by Jonathan Amos and Erwan Rivault, BBC
I feel like it should be only "then", no before. Or does the sentence mean "before slowly drifted and then charging north"?