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The phrase "after manner" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It is unclear when it could be used, as it does not form a standard expression or idiom.
Example: "He completed the task after manner of his mentor." (This sentence is awkward and unclear.)
Alternatives: "in the manner of" or "in the style of".
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All days carefully crossed out, one at a time, after manner of prisoners, except Saturdays, which were ringed with circles.
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For their ships were built and equipped after this manner.
Before each fugue is an "interludium" after the manner of Bach -- some busy, others gently rhapsodic.
"God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the West...
He found success painting portrait miniatures and later, as an etcher working "after the manner of Rembrandt".
Styled after the manner of Plato's Phaedo, it provides data with which to reconstruct the political theological controversy.
Mummy, body embalmed, naturally preserved, or treated for burial with preservatives after the manner of the ancient Egyptians.
Gibbon had his sexual requirements sorted out after the manner of many men of his day and ours.
Anyone who followed Margaret Thatcher was going to have a hell of a job, particularly after the manner of her departure.
After the manner of contemporary art (also of contemporary advertising), the iconography has been parodied, inverted, subverted, and perverted.
A Study After the Manner of Francia has two girls gazing skywards in a saintly manner, one holding a branch of lily flowers.
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