The thing began to seem to Archie a rather unusually sound and conservative investment.

No state, or nation, could make a sounder investment in its future.

What's harder, of course, is to pass on a seemingly sound investment because the business seems to do more harm than good.

It could prove a very sound investment if he ever decides to sell it again.

Increased expenditure on education was sound economic investment for both the individual and the country.

Time spent on this aspect is a very sound investment in the ferrets' future performance.

Rather, we view them as sound investments in a society that has to cope with illiteracy, poverty, drug abuse and disease.

Ironically, all the safe and sound investments are long-term.

No one believes that that is a very sound investment in our nation's future.

A very sound investment compared to plasterboards of the same thickness.