Sentence examples similar to five lira from inspiring English sources

One million lira," piped the cashier at the cybercafe.

I happily gave him 5 million lira (about $8).

Money no longer grows by the trillion lira on printing presses.

I flew there in February with a few thousand lira, an optimistic heart and no Italian whatsoever.

Fifteen lira were just enough to buy lunch, postcards, and a triple-scoop of pistachio ice cream.

The company's losses are said to have totalled 1.8 billion lira ($930m) in a single day.

Another Turkish collector, the textile magnate Oner Kocabeyoglu, bought a dozen paintings at the auction, spending more than 1.3 million lira.

A no-frills encounter costs 35 Turkish lira, around $20. Twenty lira goes to the house, the rest to the woman.

I paid eight lira for Rostow's 1954 "The Prospects for Communist China," priced on its pale coral cover at a quaint ten cents.

The new bill is the highest denomination, though its value against the dollar is less than the 10 million lira note was worth when it was issued two years ago.

The bank posted net profits of 569 million lira, or $363 million, for the first quarter of 2009, a year-on-year increase of 11percentt, excluding extraordinary items.