Example sentences of "[n mass] to [art] pound " in BNC.
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| 1 | I =mem I remember three and three and sixpence to the pound |
| 2 | Three and sixpence to the pound . |
| 3 | Since I had , naturally , got rid of all my Belgian francs , I had to convert sterling in your Ostend office at a somewhat unfavourable rate ( 47.5 Fr to the pound ; the day 's tourist rate quoted in the newspaper was 49.5 , and the previous day I got 50.1 in an Antwerp bank ) . |
| 4 | Because it expects the pound to strengthen in the months ahead , it has based its North Sea oil calculations on an exchange rate of $1.60 to the pound . |
| 5 | According to this criterion of purchasing-power parity , the dollar should be roughly DM2.25 , not DM1.74 ; ¥200 , not ¥138 ; and $1.40 to the pound , not $1.71 . |
| 6 | As the commitment came due in July , the exchange rate had climbed above $1.40 to the pound , leaving Virgin with a loss of £0.5m . |
| 7 | On this day : the Order of the Bath was constituted , 1399 ; Pope Leo X conferred the title ‘ Defender of the Faith ’ on Henry VIII , 1521 ; Peter the Great became Tsar of Russia , 1669 ; the Chicago Fire ended , having almost completely destroyed the city at a cost of $196m , 1871 ; the Anglo-Boer War started , 1899 ; Czechoslovakia became an independent republic , 1918 ; inflation overtook German currency , with the mark dropping to an exchange rate of 10,000m to the pound , 1923 ; fighting broke out in China between the Nationalists under Chiang Kai-shek and the Communists under Mao Tse-tung , 1945 ; Pope John XXIII opened the second Vatican Ecumenical Council , 1963 . |
| 8 | These are New Zealand dollars , currently $3.30 to the pound sterling , so that rate equates to just £40 an hour . |