Sentence examples for or francs from inspiring English sources

London property is a bit like gold or francs in a Swiss bank.

Neither country is about to start sending out checks for twenty-five hundred dorlars (or francs).

Then, there was Bette Midler, who, when she toured Europe in the late seventies, insisted on being paid not in dollars or pounds or francs but in gold.

They could pay for that food with dollars, marks, or francs while, for Soviet citizens, possession of hard currency was a crime punishable by the death penalty.

Auchan and most other retailers are girding for major stress and confusion as people unload their remaining marks or francs or lira at stores rather than banks.

When one MP called for a force of guerrilla snipers, or "francs-tireurs", the diarist-politician Harold Nicolson judged him "a little bit off his head".

But when the local currencies lose value relative to the euro or franc, borrowers find themselves faced with much higher monthly payments.

A globally co-ordinated round of monetary easing would be far better than a series of tit-for-tat measures that simply pass the buck (or franc).

The frange (Albanian) or franc (French) was the currency of the Autonomous Albanian Republic of Korçë (also written "Koritza" on the currency) between 1917 and 1921.

One could buy German marks, or Swiss francs or Japanese yen.

Most consider only bonds denominated in dollars, yen, euros, pounds or Swiss francs.