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By that time the company already (made) great progress in the use of recyclable bottles and packaging materials. In recent years the Colgate Company (has become) a truly global consumer products company, selling in more than 200 countries. In the 1930s one of the world’s strongest economies (suffered) a devastating collapse. Countries (have traded) with each other for thousands of years.
After the government (had put) higher taxes on petrol, people tried not to use their cars so often.