Sentence examples for by adding three noughts from inspiring English sources

In one case, prosecutors say officials changed an approval for 121 cubic metres of wood to 121,000 cubic metres simply by adding three noughts.

One collector has speculated that Polke set the price of one of his works by "doubling his age and adding three noughts".

In an essay in the catalog for Mr. Polke's 1990 retrospective at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the German collector Rainer Speck described buying a Polke in 1981 for a very high price that he suspected the artist had set by "doubling his age and adding three noughts".

One 1980s collector maintained that Polke hit on his prices by doubling whatever his age happened to be at the time and adding three noughts to the result.

Start by adding one or two drops.

From January 1st it plans to redenominate the old rouble by stripping away three noughts from the exchange rate and launching the "new" rouble at a rate of just over six to the American dollar.

Multiply two numbers by adding their powers.

The damage done to Mr. Mosley's reputation by "the embarrassing personal information" disclosed by the newspaper "cannot be mitigated by simply adding a few noughts to the number first thought of," the judge said.

It can slay the neighbors and add a nought or two to the asking price.

And Clive Woodward, their coach, will be able to add a nought or two to the fee charged for his two-hour motivational lectures while awaiting his knighthood.

When the Sheikh was in town it was said that dealers and auction houses would dust down their best stuff, add a nought or two and await his visit.