Sentence examples for lira for from inspiring English sources

Tuition is currently 25,000 Turkish lira for day students and 44,000 lira for boarders, or $14,000 and $24,000, respectively.

Seventeen lira for lunch isn't expensive — but you don't even have to pay that, if you don't want to.

As a teenager, Mr. Del Vecchio worked there during summers, cutting metal frames for sunglasses and earning one lira for every cardboard box he folded.

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

A timely loan from the IMF and a government pledge to sort out the banking sector staved off a run on the Turkish lira for a time.

Munferit, Firuzaga Mahallesi, Yeni Carsi Caddesi No. 19, Beyoglu; (90-212) 252-5067; munferit.com.tr; about 140 lira for an average meal for two, without drinks or tip.

The author paid 3,000 lire for the plate.

The man called his cousin & she asked 12,000 lire for it.

Italy will accept lire for purchases until Feb. 28, he said.

Turkish banks' ability to swap liras for foreign currencies was curbed.

Conscripts come cheaper: each costs 15m lire ($8,300) a year to maintain, compared with at least 35m lire for a professional soldier.