Or it may call for expensive investments in new computers and other data handling systems.

"While it certainly is an expensive investment, it builds what will be a bigger and more important company in the long run."

The cost was around £100,000, one of the least expensive but most remunerative military investments in history.

This increase in the interest rate makes private investment more expensive as well and less of it is used.

Hence they were an expensive investment, not to be despatched lightly.

"After they spent years of expensive investment to select the F-18, the decision was overturned in less than a year."

And it would take expensive investment to change the gasoline-to-diesel production ratio.

The construction of airports of this nature is a very expensive investment.

You cannot make the same large-scale, expensive investments in every country.

A refusal to have co-determination is the most expensive wrong investment for the economy.