Sentence examples for thousand lire from inspiring English sources

She bought his entire stock for a thousand lire, and gave some to the Italian admirers.

I flew there in February with a few thousand lira, an optimistic heart and no Italian whatsoever.

I am bringing in so little (twelve thousand lire) that I expect them to think I am hiding more.

"She may earn only eighty thousand lire a month, but it's interesting work, she meets people, a certain kind of person with money, taste.

Restaurants in Rome celebrated the happy coincidence of January 1st and the white-truffle season, white truffles being definitely more appetizing at forty euros than at eighty thousand lire for a small sprinkling on your pasta.

Although the Scerbatoffs cut the price from five hundred thousand lire to four hundred thousand (approximately twenty thousand dollars), Duveen knew that the tastes of his American clients — the ones Berenson called "squillionaires" — ran to large, colorful paintings, and he declined to buy it.

This came to 1.01 billion lire.

Last year I earned 10 billion lire [$4.6m ]

So he had 1.01 billion lire in cash and 16.43 billion lire in cash equivalent (ie, the two remaining bank cheques)—17.44 billion lire in total.

In the event you paid 27.68 billion lire.

The spill-power decision could save another 80 billion lire.