Sentence examples for million ecu of from inspiring English sources

But perhaps it would be no exaggeration to assume that illegal devices represent 5% to 20% % of the total, corresponding to more than 200 million ECU of lost income for the encrypted services.

At minimum, this will save the cost of Planck's launch (60 million ECU, or $68 million).

In other words, 50 million ECU a week are being wasted.

The euro will initially be worth one ecu, a basket of EU currencies that also includes sterling, which is not joining the euro.

Across Europe, firms received 44 billion ecus ($52 billion) of aid in 1994 (see chart).

Experts predict that savings of 2.5 billion ECU a year could be made here.

For example, an advanced braking system, implemented on a set of four ECUs, will take responsibility of applying brakes and tightening seat belts within 80 milliseconds when it senses danger.

Turkey is about to apply for membership.This year the Community's 320m people will pay about 36 billion ecus ($41 billion), or some 1% of their collective GDP, into the EEC budget.

True, the commission has some better ideas, such as switching some of the 200 billion ecus ($221 billion) spent every year on unemployment benefits to active labour-market policies; cutting the overhead and tax costs of employing workers; and encouraging more adaptable forms of contract.

It receives almost a quarter of all CAP spending the budget is about 40 billion ecus ($48 billion) a year and so makes little net contribution to the overall EU budget.

Meanwhile, at the end of his life in France, Leonardo da Vinci was paid several thousand ecus a year by the French king and got a chateau thrown in.