The company updated its software on Monday, but it ________________________________________ (crash) seven times since then.

A product was re-launched at the beginning of this month but its sales _______________________________________ (be) even worse since then.

The market share of one of your competitors _____________________________ (expand) by more than 300% in the last twelve months.

Smoking was permitted inside the office until January this year but then it was banned. Since then, the only local café ________________________ (close) its smoking area.

The sales staff were retrained in November. Since then half of the staff ______________________________ (leave) to get better jobs with other companies.

Your company ________________________________________________________ (redevelop) land that it owns just five years ago, but since then all the surrounding land has been filled with much more modern developments.

The government ____________________________________(deregulate) the insurance industry in the middle of last year and your company is the only one which hasn’t reformed its business because of that yet.

The company ________________________ (not upgrade) the computers since 2008.

Sales of the new product _______________________________________________ (make great strides = improve) in the last two months, but it is still losing money.

The company _________________(relocate) last year but no one likes the new office.

The CEO _________________________________________________________ (decide) at the end of last year to slowly decentralise power to local branches but a new CEO has joined this month and wants to bring power back to the head office.

The director ___________________________ (restructure) the department in a very unpopular way at the end of last year, then he left the company two weeks later.

The company ______________________________________________ (downsize) the workforce six months ago and now there aren’t enough staff to do all the work.