11.   There might be a temporary spike in revenue as people dump assets, but over the long run the Treasury would lose large sums.

12.   They continue to lose substantial sums of money, typical of young enterprises but something that must ultimately shift.

13.   They watch impassively, hour after hour, as customers lose vast sums of money, grow hostile and hurl abuse.

14.   While many people have made fortunes on the stock plan, employees who have quit have lost sums in the tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars.

15.   But the effort proved disastrous as it lost large sums of money.

16.   CHICKEN vendors pleaded on Sunday for the suspension of the rent they pay during the current crisis, as they are losing large sums of money.

17.   He was running a phony investment business similar to a pyramid scheme in which many people lost large sums of money.

18.   The money would have been used to reimburse investors who lost large sums when Enron collapsed in December, the newspaper said.

19.   The money would have been used to reimburse investors who lost large sums when Enron collapsed, the newspaper said.

20.   Unlike Tiger, which invested in the wrong stocks, Long-Term Capital borrowed heavily and then lost huge sums of money betting on the interest rates of bonds.