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He was laid ____ when the factory went bust.

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Old 07-May-2007, 16:32
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Old 24-Jun-2007, 20:33
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I've been laid off. It is certainly not a pleasant experience.

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I've been laid off. It is certainly not a pleasant experience.

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I know the feeling as well. But since it was so long ago, I don't find it so miserable as I did just after being laid off. Now I am in work again and can't complain. I wish you all the best in finding another, maybe better, job, RonBee.
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I know the feeling as well. But since it was so long ago, I don't find it so miserable as I did just after being laid off. Now I am in work again and can't complain. I wish you all the best in finding another, maybe better, job, RonBee.
Um, I didn't mean that it happened recently. The experience that I was talking about happened in 2004, so the pain of that experience is pretty much in the past.



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Um, I didn't mean that it happened recently.
Oh, I thought you were talking about the recent past. Sorry. I'm sure it would have been more obvious to me if there had been an adverbial used, like before.
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