Sentence examples for billion dirhams from inspiring English sources

Of that, foreign investors paid 22 billion dirhams for 12,875 properties.

Etisalat's international gains helped first-quarter total revenue rise 2 percent to 8.2 billion dirhams, or $2.23 billion, offsetting a 2.6 percent drop in domestic revenue to 6.09 billion dirhams.

In May, Emirates, which is based in Dubai, reported a fivefold rise in net profit for 2009-10, to 3.5 billion dirhams, or $953 million, and forecast earnings for this year of 4.25 billion dirhams.

The total value of real estate transactions in Dubai topped 63 billion dirhams in the first half of 2012.

were close to 50 billion dirhams, or $13.6 billion, a 50 percent rise from the end of 2009.

The government plans to triple annual income from tourism to 300 billion dirhams, or $82 billion, by 2020 and double the existing number of hotel rooms, according to an ambitious government agenda made public last week, Vision 2020.

More than 70 buyers in the stalled 6.9 billion dirham Tameer Towers project on Reem are pursuing legal action against the developer, hoping for refunds in the half-finished development, which originally was scheduled for completion last June.

Empire Tower, where Ms. Strachan purchased her apartment, is part of Reem Island, a 110 billion dirham project developed by the Abu Dhabi government to include hotels, marinas and housing for 200,000 people on an 846-hectare, or 2,090-acre 2,090-acre

The sick banking system of Europe Ports in a storm Shifting sands A 60-year-old dream Opening the floodgates ReprintsRumoured to be next on the list is a possible 28 billion dirham ($7.7 billion) merger of Abu Dhabi's second- and third-largest banks.

On Feb. 3, Al-Fajer Properties, a high-profile real estate development firm owned by the brother of Dubai's ruling sheik, announced a 3.2 billion dirham ($871.2 million) restructuring of its operations.

The Gulf Emirate paid 4.8 billion dirham to use the Louvre name for 30 years, receive training from Louvre staff and gain access to the renowned Paris museum's artwork collection.