11.   Many companies are starting to invest in China, where there are potentially huge new Markets.

12.   The company started to unravel when two of the directors were arrested.

13.   Any manager knows that his company will start falling apart if his attention wanders.

14.   The company is only just starting to reap the rewards of long-term investments.

15.   The company started down the slippery slope of believing that they knew better than the customer.

16.   In early March Saudi Arabian companies had started trucking food into Kuwait and had launched a major refuse clearing operation.

17.   He says that the company is just starting to do well.

18.   Manufacturers were now fitting more new cars with better security devices and insurance companies were starting to offer discounts for improved locks, alarms and demobilisers.

19.   Almost without exception, successful video-game and software companies started as bootstrap operations, run by entrepreneurs steeped in the culture of shopping-mall arcades.