Sentence examples for lakhs from inspiring English sources
They are people who have been chosen among lakhs [hundreds of thousands] of people, they have taken a variety of subjects to get through this exam.
Even the Chief Election Commissioner knows it.In a remarkably frank conversation sponsored in 2012 by a think-tank, the Observer Research Foundation, parliamentarians from both Congress and the BJP discussed spending as much as 20 crore rupees ($3.3m) to win seats where the official limit is 16 lakhs ($26,000).
His example of an overpaid superstar is Sachin Tendulkar ("sa-CHEEN ten-dook-laar") and he mentions lakhs of rupees ("locks") before switching to talk of dollars.
It chases them around the districts, totting up the costs they can see and adjusting the candidates' filings by a few lakhs.
Infant mortality is clearly attributed to the child's own wickedness and carries a load of 84 lakhs of rebirths (i.e., the child has to be reborn 8,400,000 times).
Alex had a girlfriend from his social set he'd been dating since they were twelve, Valentina, had cheated on her at least two thousand times, with girls and boys, but because of his lakhs she wasn't going anywhere.
Coffee wars Reality bites No lakh of daring Totally different ReprintsMr de Margerie is careful to point out that he is not predicting "peak oil" in a geological sense.
Any extra distance between the mother plant and its offspring will add to the cost of production, he points out, jeopardising the "one-lakh" price tag (100,000 rupees, or $2,300) that has made the Nano famous.
The future of these two grand old badges will be shaped not in Coventry, cradle of the British motor industry, but in Pune, home of Tata Motors.Another indication of this newcomer's growing strength was the unveiling this week of the revolutionary, cheap "one lakh" car, which will sell in India and South-East Asia for the equivalent of $2,500.
It is after all home to the lakh, for 100,000 and the crore, for 10m, along with the first nine numerals (despite their being mislabeled as "Arabic" by the West).
Mr Tata later promised that the Nano would be a real car that could be bought for just one lakh (about $2,500)—a commitment he triumphantly honoured when the little jellybean-shaped car was revealed at the Delhi motor show in January this year.A legend before its lifetimeThe Nano is not just very cheap; to be so cheap it also has to be very clever.
