1.   American companies are watching Japanese developments closely.

2.   They leased the offices from an American company.

3.   American companies put millions of dollars behind the bid to host the games.

4.   The campaign will target American insurance companies.

5.   Millicom Holdings is the British arm of an American company.

6.   American companies pride themselves on their professionalism.

7.   American companies looked at ways they could trim these costs.

8.   The firm has amalgamated with an American company.

9.   A group of American companies was reported to have instructed its vessels not to stray farther up the Gulf than the Saudi terminal at Ras Tanura.

10.   These call on American companies with Northern Irish plants to practise fair employment there.