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Six example sentences with investment, each labelled with its topic.
Her first investment was two hundred pounds in a supermarket fund, and she left it untouched for nineteen years.
Finance
Business investment fell for three consecutive quarters, which economists read as a signal about interest rates rather than demand.
Economics
The founders took a smaller investment from a partner who promised no board seat and two years of quiet.
Startups
The company's investment in a new warehouse paid off in two years, when delivery times fell by half.
Business
Investment in canals in the 1790s made fortunes for some shareholders and ruined many others within a decade.
History
The fund's investment in the chip designer looked reckless until every phone maker needed the license.
Technology
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