The phrase "amount of foreign currency" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a specific quantity or value of currency that is not the local currency, typically in financial or economic contexts.
Example: "The amount of foreign currency exchanged during the trip was significantly higher than expected."
Alternatives: "quantity of foreign currency" or "value of foreign currency".
His proposal may appeal to Iceland's authorities because it would inject a substantial amount of foreign currency into the country's monetary system.
The government also may revise regulations on the amount of foreign currency that companies can retain when they sell their goods overseas.
Since then, ordinary Venezuelan citizens and businesses have faced limits on the amount of foreign currency they can acquired at the heavily subsidised official rate, while the well-connected have made fortunes by exploiting the system.
This means that the Central Bank of Barbados registers the amount of foreign currency that offshore buyers bring to the island; in turn the registration enables buyers, if they choose to sell, to take out the amount of money brought in, plus profit, according to Zarina Khan, a managing partner at Prospect Chambers, Barbados.
These contracts allow buyers to book a large amount of foreign currency ahead of time by putting down a small deposit in advance.
In other words, following the logic of PPP theory, with the same amount of foreign currency than before trade openness, tradable goods become cheaper (i.e., the local currency depreciates vis-à-vis the foreign currency).
With high prices, Algeria's oil and gas industry continues to expand, bringing in increasing amounts of foreign currency.
Restrictions on foreign investment limit the flow of private funds into China; meanwhile, the Chinese government is keeping the value of its currency, the renminbi, artificially low by buying huge amounts of foreign currency, in effect subsidizing its exports.
In its statement today, Russia's Federal Security Service, or F.S.B., the heir to the Soviet-era K.G.B., said that many incriminating documents had been found on the American and that the Russian was carrying large amounts of foreign currency.
But analysts predicted the central bank would maintain a limit it set on the franc's appreciation against the euro, by vowing to buy unlimited amounts of foreign currency.
A Russian central bank official said the bank had sold large amounts of foreign currency a day earlier to shore up the ruble, which has fallen to its lowest level in about a year as oil and share prices decline.
