Example sentences of "to [art] pound " in BNC.
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| 1 | Botswana has no foreign debt and a stable currency — the pula ( about three to the Pounds ) — and its tourism policy can be summed up as high cost , low volume . |
| 2 | The shibboleth of the DM3 standard should not stand in the way of entry at a realistic level , which would probably be at around DM2.80 to the pound . |
| 3 | So an exchange rate of fewer than DM3 to the pound today might not be so inconsistent in market terms . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Then he could confront the Prime Minister with the choice of still higher interest rates or a relaxation in her opposition to the pound 's joining the ERM . |
| 6 | To take an oversimplified example : if an investor buys marks at three to the pound , and the pound falls until it is valued at just two marks , every pound of the original stake will be worth £1.50 at the new rate . |
| 7 | The official exchange rate ( at the time of writing ) is around 50 Kcs to the pound . |
| 8 | The local currency is the dirham , currently 14.65 to the pound . |
| 9 | Though the group believes Britain should join , it warns that it should only do so at an exchange rate of around DM2.40 to the pound — involving a 15 per cent devaluation from the current DM2.79 . |
| 10 | Though the group believes Britain should join , it warns that it should only do so at an exchange rate of around DM2.40 to the pound — involving a 15 per cent devaluation from the current DM2.79 . |
| 11 | DM3.20 to the pound was a critical level to defend . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | F1 Prisca Yields four fruits to the pound ; forms five trusses , then stops ; ideal for small greenhouses , cordon . |
| 14 | Sterling is even closer to its intervention level against the peseta than the escudo and market rumours of a lira devaluation mean that the Italians , the Portuguese and the Spanish pose a more immediate threat to the pound than the identity of the next British Chancellor . |
| 15 | The night before in the main plaza I had loitered beneath a canopy which had held table football and prize shooting to the pound of rock music . |
| 16 | short candles weighing six to the pound . |
| 17 | The British infantry , firing a heavier bullet — 16 to the pound against the French 24 — than their enemies , and trained to do so rapidly , by platoons instead of in cumbrous ranks , now achieved a mastery of the battlefield that was the envy of continental commanders . |
| 18 | These are New Zealand dollars , currently $3.30 to the pound sterling , so that rate equates to just £40 an hour . |
| 19 | The plunge of Sterling means you only get 16 Austrian schillings to the pound , compared to about 20 last winter . |
| 20 | BRITAIN 'S trade deficit has soared to a seven-month high , partly due to the pound 's devaluation . |
| 21 | Since sterling entered the ERM in October 1990 , UK monetary policy has been wholly subordinated to maintaining the currency within its permitted fluctuation band ( 6% either side of a central rate of DM2.95 to the pound ) . |
| 22 | Later the Treasury claimed Mr Lamont stood by his remarks about events leading up to the pound 's ERM suspension , but apologised for Press comments . |
| 23 | The basic problem , as recent analysis has shown , was one of long-term adjustment of the dollar in relation to the pound and other major currencies . |
| 24 | It is particularly bullish about exports , thanks to the pound 's depreciation last year . |
| 25 | Whether it 's potatoes or plums , lettuces or leeks , mushrooms or mangoes , the English greengrocery trade is reluctant to handle any produce which does not conform to a given size , a given number to the pound . |
| 26 | Five years ago it was announced in a communique issued from Agriculture House that tomatoes which are smallish , about 7 to the pound , round , red all over , and firm are the best and command the highest prices . |
| 27 | To do so , however , the conversion rate had to be given to the pupils in a more convenient form than the number of foreign money units to the pound and pupils did not necessarily learn to apply the arithmetic algorithm to conversions . |
| 28 | The exchange rate at the time the contract was signed was 1.45 dollars to the pound . |
| 29 | When Virgin had entered into the deal , the dollar rate stood at 1.45 to the pound . |
| 30 | 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 . |