11.   To listen to Paul you would think there was an intense competition for class speaking time.

12.   We have maintained our share of the free trade Market, despite intense competition and considerable pressure on Margins.

13.   Intense competition is good for you - it forces you to toughen up and wise up.

14.   Following several years of intense competition and excess capacity, the merger was the most significant change to date in the rationalisation of the industry.

15.   It then makes sense to ascribe the subsequent rise in real wages primarily to whichever of the two markets sees the more intense competition.

16.   Obviously there is intense competition from banks and building societies.

17.   Apart from intense competition in the retail savings market, banks and building societies also compete strongly in the market for house finance.

18.   They certainly seem to fill their stadia, week in, week out, regardless of the intense competition from live TV.

19.   In sum, all of these developments add up to more intense competition for the foreseeable future.

20.   Although Sony faces intense competition from Microsoft and Nintendo in the consumer video game market, it is not expected to extend the price cut to the United States.