Sentence examples for of a rupee from inspiring English sources
Any electricity meter that is registered in the name of a woman gets a concession of 10 paisa [one-tenth of a rupee] per unit [of electricity consumed].
They describe the hard-pressed women of the Indian city of Guntur, who line the road each morning, mixing dosas over a kerosene stove for the price of a rupee.
He worked to expand the league, reducing the cost of membership to two annas (⅛ of a rupee), half of what it cost to join the Congress.
He wants to lobby the Reserve Bank of India for a rupee derivatives market aimed at exporters and importers.
Some girls, many of them underage, never see a rupee of it.
The novel offers plenty of satire, but barely a rupee's worth of social criticism.
The impact of a weaker rupee has yet to fully feed through and may raise inflation higher still.
But what on earth is the point of a zero-rupee note?
Those who had gone through the Kavadi were willing to give an average of a hundred and thirty-four rupees to the temple.
Mr. Abid said that the shrine attendants were clearing "hundreds of thousands of rupees a month" selling good-luck charms.
According to local NGOs, police officers often make deals with brothel owners — they can make hundreds of thousands of rupees a month in bribes just for looking the other way and giving tips on the next raid.
