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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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An oligopoly exists in a market with just a few sellers.
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As a consequence of this trend, defensive mergers took place to protect local oligopolies.
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By controlling the oligopolies the state can direct aggregate performance.
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For some time, since the 1920s, it had been a conservative, uncompetitive oligopoly .
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It is apparently a competitive oligopoly .
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The oligopolies will not be divided into small-scale firms.
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The alarming increase in media oligopolies has led to a subsequent decline in any need for public accountability on the part of media corporations.
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What we do in this chapter is the reverse: we focus on the implications of oligopoly .