Sentence examples similar to five piastres from inspiring English sources

The V.C. collect two piastres a month".

The Farmers Liberation Associationn asked for dues of two piastres a month.

As leader, he received fifty-two hundred piastres a month (about thirty-nine dollars).

Thence the tin is shipped to Hong-Kong, where the pieces sell at thirty-five or forty piastres.

In addition, this vessel carried a million piastres, of which 800,000 were for the Duke of Savoy and the rest for the Marquis de Leganez and other individuals.

We are giving each family a compensation of five thousand piastres [about thirty-eight dollars]." "Most of these people are rice farmers.

He said that his workers slept inside the camp and received a salary of three thousand two hundred and fifty piastres a month (about twenty-four dollars).

The hostess herself, if she is a prostitute, as about half of the girls are, costs from three hundred to seven hundred piastres (from about two dollars and a quarter to six dollars and a quarter).

Several women and children from the village of Ben Cat had already set themselves up in business, selling bottled orange drinks and beer at more than sixty piastres a bottle (about fifty cents) to the parched and affluent Americans.

If I may have my two piastres, there seems to me a sort of congruence or echo between the twin towers of the World Trade Center and the twin Buddhas of Bamiyan, destroyed by the Taliban and its Arab allies in March 2001, and the twin idols of Lat and Uzza of Koran 53 19.

A Chinese news broadcast stated that 100 million piastres had been allocated for relief efforts.