Sentence examples for Half a rupee from inspiring English sources

For example, it has hired Dukhiya Yadav, the head of a village self-help group, to collect seeds from the farmers and sort the bad from the good, for half a rupee per kilogram.

In 1904 Jamshetji paid the British half a rupee for a license to build a steel mill near a huge hill of iron ore the one with the elephants, tigers and monkeys that was not far from a railroad station used by the Brits.

Like the others in the class, Ms. Nagpal and Mr. Agarwal, who had enrolled in programs titled "Confident Lady" and "Polished Executive Level One," respectively, had paid half a million rupees ($8,300) toward the pursuit of charm.

He worked to expand the league, reducing the cost of membership to two annas (⅛ of a rupee), half of what it cost to join the Congress.

Books on India are ten-a-rupee.

She delivered the twins and then asked for two and a half million rupees ($245 dollars).

The Moghul rulers were followed by the Afghans and, later, by the Sikhs from the Punjab, who were driven out in the nineteenth century by the British, who then sold the valley, to the abiding shame of its residents, for seven and a half million rupees to the maharaja, Gulab Singh.

Workers on the estate are paid 94 rupees (91p) a day – barely half the 169 rupee legal minimum wage for Assam.

My mom [gave] me a rupee coin.

In 1994, when the top-selling paper in New Delhi was the Hindustan Times, Jain slashed the price of the Times of India by a third, to one and a half rupees, or about three cents.

It involved airlifts to Bombay, 1,000 rupees each — only $25 U.S., but half a month's local rent.