41.   County councillors confirmed this week that the homes will close, blaming competition from private homes, vacant places and the amount of investment needed in council homes.

42.   Durham county councillors confirmed this week that the homes would close, blaming competition from private homes, vacant places, and investment needed on council homes.

43.   It was also hit by a fall in European sales of fertilisers and competition from imports.

44.   Lord Sterling has been urging the Government to allow co-operation with other ferry operators in the face of the imminent competition from the Channel Tunnel.

45.   The decision to sell off the yards come nearly four months after Devonport won a contract to refit Trident submarines against competition from Rosyth.

46.   The cable companies fear huge competition from the system and the hundreds of new uses for the domestic television sets that are being developed.

47.   At their annual trade show today, cable companies expressed alarm at the prospect of competition from B T.

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

49.   Workers in Ellesmere Port beat off stiff competition from sister company Opel in Germany to win the contract for the plant.