Sentence examples for Cypriot pound from inspiring English sources

"When the Cypriot pound was around, I had a job.

If Nicosia brought back the Cypriot pound, it would plummet in value.

Even so, the longer capital controls continue, the louder will grow the voices that call for bringing back the Cypriot pound.

Whether or not Cyprus remains in the euro, or goes back to the much-missed Cypriot pound, the sun will still shine, the mountains will look glorious and you'll still be warmly welcomed.

Ssix years after Cyprus adopted the euro, economists in Nicosia are dusting off their currency-assessment models to better understand what the immediate economic effect might be if the Cypriot pound were to be reintroduced.

A responsible government would want to contain inflation by either linking the Cypriot pound to another currency, like the British pound, or running a tight but independent monetary policy.

Printing a parallel currency so people get Cypriot pounds instead of euros from the cash machines?

They signed the purchase contract in December that year, paying 184,000 Cypriot pounds for a three-bed property that had yet to be built.

A hasty expulsion from the euro zone would make the savings of the Cypriot people all the more evanescent, once they are converted back into Cypriot pounds, the currency Cyprus used before adopting the euro in 2007.

His reference was to Cypriot pounds, which the country used before it adopted the euro — not to British pounds, which it used before it gained its independence from British administration in 1960.

In Malta the cut-off age is 75 and, though there's no age limit as such in Cyprus, drivers aged 72 and over have to pay a daily surcharge of three Cypriot pounds.