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The trucks make it through, but they've taken a hammering.

"You are going to take a hammering if you remain here."

French resorts took a hammering last season with a paucity of snow across the board.

With rapidly increasing very high cost imports, the balance of payments is going to take a hammering.

America is taking a hammering from the Japanese.

The country's benchmark C-bond has also taken a hammering.

The bond market took a hammering today.

"Its rugged design means it will also take a hammering that would see lesser phones destroyed.

But the Packard's heavily built and the suspension would take a hammering, so we'd be asking for trouble.'

As our biggest lender to small businesses NatWest has taken a hammering in the recession.

They're the ones that took a hammering back in central Germany, and if reports are to be believed, they're out for blood, anyone's blood.

Found in Reel.com's "love is hard" subsection of the romantic drama category, the film has taken a hammering from critics.

They took a hammering / took a thrashing.

Courier's reputation as the most feared baseliner in the world has taken a hammering over the last twelve months.

Credit agencies in the United States had taken a hammering, and people on the lists were now entitled to a report annually or on demand.

But Bloomberg took a hammering last winter after his absence during the post-Christmas snowstorm.

Act Two: two weeks later, Charlie's celebrity career is taking a hammering from the incident widely reported by Gale.

Last winter, Dr Pachauri's reputation took a hammering.

She really had taken a hammering, but she'd come through; she'd survived. . . . Survival.

'This shore took a hammering,' Mrs Gibson said.

The young soldier looks hesitant as he bares his shoulder happily not the one taking a hammering from the shotgun and shows you some grubby bandages.

Much of the work of maintaining the track was at the joints, especially as the stiff rails became dipped, and the joint sleepers took a hammering.

Confidence would falter, stockmarkets would take a hammering, talk of a meek and mild recession in America would stop.

It is not unusual for parties to take a hammering when they are in government," he told the BBC Radio 4 Today programme.

"Took a Hammering" (Björklund and Trainer)

It's our members in these industries who've been given a hammering since privatization and who need as much support as possible to give them the confidence to face further difficult years ahead.