21.   The Japanese were usually prepared to take bigger risks and invest larger sums in western enterprises than were many of their rivals.

22.   The reason that they have not been much used in cars is that established car makers have invested vast sums in conventional manufacturing technology.

23.   There has been greater growth where huge sums have been invested.

24.   We would like to invest this sum in a relatively safe place.

25.   Woodstock Ventures Inc., whose three partners staged the first concert, is not investing significant sums of its own money.

26.   Industry, expected to flee to EU countries, is investing record sums in Norway.

27.   Japanese companies invested huge sums in real estate back then.

28.   Large sums were invested in projects that did not yield good returns, the report said.

29.   Larger companies that have already invested big sums in Russia are still trying to weather the storm.