Sentences with lira
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L l - It only cost me 400,000 lire.
- The franc had been under no pressure compared with the lira.
- When the euro went into Italy, the lira suddenly became unpopular with young people.
- The bill from the hotel came to 1644 Turkish lira followed by six noughts.
- Mussolini believed that a weak lira looked bad for Italy when he was trying to create the image of a super-power in Europe.
- And the recent movements have to be looked at in the way we used to look at movements of the franc and the Deutsche mark and the lira against each other and against the dollar.
- The dollar has taken a hit against almost every major world currency including the British pound, Canadian dollar and Japanese yen, as well as some minor ones like the Turkish lira, Thai baht, and Australian dollar.
- Many Italians have opted not to use the euro until the end of February, when the lira will no longer be legal tender.
- But the 1973-74 oil price crisis forces out sterling, the Italian lira and French franc under pressure from the dollar.
- Since Turkey plunged into a deep economic crisis in February the lira has plummeted around 60 percent against the dollar.
- The following day the Italian lira also had to leave the mechanism.
- By a different measure, he says Italians and the Portuguese are less bothered about switching to the euro because of the relative under-performance of the lira and escudo.
- Turkey gave up its defence of the lira last week, leaving the currency to drop by a third in just two days and leaving 65 million Turks facing serious inflationary problems and sharply reduced spending power.
- Prices of drugs are those pertaining in Italy when available, converting the Italian lira at a rate of 1936.
- When an Italian politician proposed that Italy should exit the euro area and return to the lira, specialists just laughed.
- Before the euro, Italy kept its boutique manufacturing base competitive by devaluing the lira as often as necessary.