1.   Major record companies invest vast sums of money in new artists every year.

2.   The company has invested huge sums in research.

3.   The energy crisis has suddenly made governments show extraordinary interest in investing large sums in research into alternative energy sources.

4.   Tiny producers, for example, have little incentive to invest large sums in artificial insemination in order to breed better cattle.

5.   The airlines have invested enormous sums in new, quieter aircraft.

6.   The committee noted that although significant sums had been invested in rural hospitals, those still relied heavily on local GPs and larger district general hospitals.

7.   And yet DaimlerChrysler, despite shrinking profits, swears that it will continue to invest big sums in new technology.

8.   Companies with such small market caps generally have relatively low trading volumes, making it difficult to invest large sums of money in them.

9.   Eventually, the frenzied Dutch were investing huge sums for a single bulb.

10.   For years, restaurant owners have invested huge sums to get earsplitting acoustics, eye-popping interior design and the kind of bustling movement normally found on a trading floor.