The phrase "a lira" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to the former currency of Italy or Turkey, or in a historical context when discussing money.
Example: "He saved up a few lira during his trip to Italy before the euro was introduced."
Alternatives: "one lira" or "a Turkish lira".
Italian corporate scandals are two a lira but corporate clean-ups are few.
This four-tower, five-function and two-theater project aims to provide the city's most luxurious apartments as well as entertainment for people without a lira to spend.
If she "never made a lira" from these recordings, as Ms. Gencer told Opera News in 2003, they had other compensations.
Alternating between a lira da gamba and a bass viol, the elder Mr. Savall was, as always, idiosyncratic, rough and excellent: in the best moments his ornamentation was exhilarating, the texture of virtuosic fast passages irresistibly brushy, his dynamic range extraordinary.
Mr. Savall, in place of his customary viola da gamba, played a lira — a violinlike instrument, held like a gamba — and a rebab, a Middle Eastern bowed instrument; and Montserrat Figueras, the soprano who is also his wife, sang and played a dulcimer.
If you bring me up Carpi … One can come up … If you bring me teams who are not worth a fuck, in two or three years we will not have a lira left.' "Because when I go to sell the TV rights – which brought in €1.2bn thanks to my skill, I managed to bring Sky and Mediaset together, in 10 years nobody had managed that – in three years, if we have Latina, Frosinone, who the fuck will buy the rights?
If you say yes again, the next time you meet he will ask if you might lend him a few pounds, a few liras, a few francs.
The mini-budget comes on top of a harsh 1997 budget (a 62 trillion lire tightening), a 1996 summer mini-budget (a 16 trillion lire squeeze) and a "tax for Europe", to be paid in May and November, that will cost an Italian family earning a comfortable 60m lire an extra 2.5% of its annual income.Where has the money come from this time?
You can buy hams whole at $7.80 a kilogram (about $3.50 a pound), or in boned halves or quarters at $17 $7.700 a pound) lire a kilogram.
After a late bite and a 6.50 lira ($4) shared van back across to Kadikoy, I had spent 60.95 lira, or $38.
Make sure you know the difference between a 10,000 lira note (worth £3.30) and a 100,000 lira note (worth £33).
