they were competing
-concouraient
Past progressive they conjugation of compete.

compete

Actually it is wrong to set celebration and adoration against each other, as if they were competing.
En réalité, c’est une erreur que d’opposer la célébration et l’adoration, comme si elles étaient concurrentes.
In the first study(1) participants were informed that they were competing in a reaction time test with another person in the adjoining room.
Dans la première (1) étude, les participants ont été informés qu’ils entraient en compétition avec une autre personne dans la pièce voisine dans un test de leur temps de réaction.
Although they were competing in the historic section of the event, they won 15 out of the 16 stages to win the New Zealand Rally Championship event outright.
Même s’ils roulaient dans la section historique de l’événement, ils ont remporté quinze des seize spéciales du rallye au calendrier du Championnat de Nouvelle-Zélande.
The prizes they were competing for weren't very attractive.
Les prix pour lesquels ils concouraient n'étaient pas très attrayants.
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