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navi tasan

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Can one use:

1-I met him alone a few times. It was only then that I felt close to him.

instead of:

2-I met him alone a few times. It was only on those occasions that I felt close to him.

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Possibly, though it could also mean that it was after meeting him a number of times that you felt close.
 
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