Sentence examples for centimes from inspiring English sources

Others, making different calculations of fuel consumption, reckon that the cost could be twice as high.Lorry drivers will benefit from a reduction of 35 centimes per litre in the tax on petroleum products, backdated to January 1st.

"Ten centimes of appreciation on the euro is a €1bn deficit for Airbus.

The franc was formally established as the monetary unit of France in 1799 and made divisible into 10 decimos and 100 centimes.

The piastre was also the unit of the French protectorate of Tunisia until 1891, when a coinage of francs and centimes was introduced.

In the former Belgian Congo (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo), originally established as the Congo Free State by King Leopold II in 1885, currency was based on silver francs and copper centimes.

In 1793 the decimal system was adopted, in terms of francs, decimes, and centimes, coins now being dated by the Revolutionary era; gold coinage was effectively lacking until the time of Napoleon.

In 1945 the insurer, whose name has not been disclosed, paid his children 26 centimes--about the price of a metro ticket.

According to the latest estimate from the European Commission, the aid that has been lavished on the bank so far does not amount to a single centime, but roughly 11 trillion of them, or some FFr110 billion ($18 billion).

FATCA's purpose is to ensure that not a centime or rouble that a "US person" has stashed away goes undetected by the IRS.

Until last week, both Mrs Deviers-Joncour and Mr Dumas denied that he received a centime from Elf. Mr Dumas continues to do so; but now she claims that he did accept a "present" of six ancient Greek statues, worth FFr264,000 and paid for by Elf.

WHEN, in 1995, France's right-wing government leapt to the aid of Crédit Lyonnais, the country's biggest and sickest bank, the then finance minister, Edmond Alphandéry, promised that the rescue would not cost taxpayers a centime.