Example sentences of "was [v-ing] market [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He notes that at the time that Hoover was engaged in this exercise , a basic Italian washing machine was gaining market share against a heavily promoted German product , in Germany . |
| 2 | The Australians produced an impressive array of statistics to explain why the Pearl was underperforming and how it was losing market share . |
| 3 | Ever Ready , a battery maker , was losing market share to Duracell and made pre-tax profits of only £4.2m when Hanson bought it in 1981 . |
| 4 | So although he was able to boast that his own Comet ( which , with Woolies , B&Q and Superdrug , makes the four retailing legs of the Kingfisher group ) was taking market share from other national chains , its share of the total electrical market was actually falling . |
| 5 | This happened despite the government 's claims that it was injecting market discipline into the private sector by not ‘ bailing out lame ducks ’ . |