Sentences with word «francs»

In a third dispute, all the landowners are suing the government and the photographic agency Sygma for 6 million francs as their share in the earnings from photographs of the prehistoric masterpieces, which were either given or sold to the media and publishers all over the world.

After LEP shut down in 2000, physicists then reused the LEP tunnel to house the LHC, which cost 6 billion Swiss francs and turned on in 2008, saving a billion or two in construction expenses.

Practice makes perfect: but perfection still hadn't quite been achieved when, a fortnight ago, the whole organisation was held to ransom for two million French francs after some 1200 electronic components that are indispensable to the running of its particle accelerators were removed and hidden.

The project will cost 60 million francs (# 7.6 million).

Currently condoms are sold in pharmacies at 4 francs each (about 50 pence).

The French cabinet has approved an increase of 5.25 per cent in funding for research and development for 1993, taking spending up to 61.3 billion francs (# 500 million).

Wernery calculates that at today's market price for aerogel, a single square metre of a brick wall would generate additional costs of around 500 francs.

Swiss researchers found in one 2008 study that flu viruses, which typically survive for a couple days on Swiss francs, can survive up to 17 days if accompanied by mucus — spelling trouble for folks who handle cash after someone else with a runny nose handled it.

Their caution reflected the heavy costs of Napoléon's previous quest for glory: more than 900,000 French soldiers dead, and a depleted national treasury now saddled with millions of francs of reparations due the Allies.

Fillon wants total spending on research to increase from 160 billion francs (# 20 billion) to 200 billion francs over the next decade, so that France can catch up with Japan and the US.

Montagnier said he would set up three centres for clinical trials of AIDS treatments in Paris, California and Cote d'Ivoire, at a start - up cost of some 180 million francs (# 20 million) and annual operating costs of 150 million francs.

«Three million francs» worth of gold and silver going to waste.»

Around two million Swiss francs were budgeted for the associated research.

In one task, subjects made a choice between a reward (ranging between 75 and 155 Swiss francs) for themselves or one that was shared equally between themselves and another person, who ranged from their closest confidante to a stranger on the street.

That's up from 1,000 CFA francs last season.

This is more than two month's salary in Cameroon (with average monthly income for an employed person at 30,000 CFA Francs).

The cost of his application for a visa to join his family was $ 475.00 USD / # 277.20 (229,140.00 CFA Francs).

It is happening in Switzerland, where authorities have begun warning refugees that they will have to hand over property worth more than a 1000 Swiss francs.

Partly to counter this, the Swiss campaigned for a basic income pitched at 2,500 Swiss francs (approximately $ 2250, # 1,750 or USD2, 555).

Putting that in context — Rwanda spent 5.5 billion Rwandan francs ($ 6.5 million) to conduct its August 4 third multiparty election which had 6.8 million registered voters thus less than a dollar per voter.

I then watched another accept thick stacks of CFA francs from a government official in exchange for her name.

Nestle shares, which hit an all - time high of 57.50 francs ahead of solid first - quarter results last week, fell 3.06 percent to 55.35 francs at 0800 GMT as they traded ex-dividend, compared with a 1.11 percent weaker European food and beverage index.

The Spanish champions were originally issued with a ban for two transfer windows along with a fine of 450,000 Swiss francs

Prizes consisting of sums of money as high as sixty thousand francs are frequently won in matches of pigeons, to say nothing of the betting to which those matches give occasion.»

Also involved were the governing body of Spanish football, the RFEF, who have been fined 500,000 Swiss francs and given a year to «regularise their regulatory framework and existing system concerning the international transfer of minors in football».

They will also have to pay a fine of 450,000 Swiss francs.

We'll get an FIM fine in Swiss Francs.

Granit Xhaka + Age — 24 Contract — 30.06.2021 Can't explain the compulsion to compare Xhaka with Gilles Grimandi but it does show how Wenger has made his name off budget buys, like the # 3m paid for a 7/10 player like Gilles Grimandi, rather than splashing the Francs on targets whose reputation precedes them.

Platini is being investigated over that same payment, which amounted to two million Swiss francs and which he claims was payment for work done nine years previously.

Barry Callebaut has seen stagnating demand for chocolate this year yet has seen revenue edge up 1.5 % to 1.45 billion Swiss francs in the first quarter of its 2009/2010 fiscal year ending 30 November 2009, according to its latest financial statement.

Currency: Swiss Francs Electricity: Current 220 - 230 volts AC, 50Hz.

Maggi generated sales of about 3 billion francs ($ 4.1 billion) to 4 billion francs last year, estimates Jean - Philippe Bertschy, an analyst at Bank Vontobel AG.

When Babette, the sisters» «papist» housekeeper and a former professional chef, wins 10,000 francs in a lottery and decides to throw the congregation a «real French dinner,» the villagers are suspicious of the sensual attractions of gourmet dining.

Coming home drunk on another occasion, he demanded 200 francs from his mother and attacked her with a saber when she didn't deliver.

As a matter of fact the French government has reduced the value added tax on theme parks from 18.6 % to 7 %, lent 4 billion francs at preferential rates and provided 2.7 billion francs in infrastructure improvements, such as highways and rail roads.

He knows how much the different versions of the first edition of Ulysses cost in francs, pounds, and dollars, how much Eliot received from all sources for publishing The Waste Land and how that compares with the per capita income of the United States at the time, and how much Ezra Pound's first book had increased in value by 1924.

This work, in 1997, led rice producers to «block» their rice, to refuse to deliver it to the national collection company which was buying a kilo of rice at a price lower than the cost of production at 112 francs CFA.

As the European crisis continues, investors are increasingly converting their euros into Swiss francs, and at an accelerating pace.

They're then using those francs to purchase more Swiss debt, forcing yields into negative territory.

The removal of the cap, which had pinned the currency at 1.20 francs per euro, caused a significant drop in the euro versus the Swiss franc.

The LFE Platform will use the Ripple and Stellar networks, with Bitcoin, Ethereum and Ripple all accepted, together with bank transfers of British pounds, Euros, US dollars, Australian dollars and Swiss francs.

In addition, many companies in those lands financed their domestic businesses by borrowing Swiss francs, euros and other hard currencies at lower rates than in their own inflation - prone countries.

That's really what the summer of 2014 was; from the first eruption in repo fails to oil to October 15, 2014 (collateral and Russia) to then junk bonds, rubles, and francs.

Sulzer shares fell 3.5 percent to 125.50 Swiss francs.

2016 revenue grew to 89.5 billion Swiss francs, or US$ 92.7 billion, about 3 percent more than the previous year.

The Swiss National Bank (SNB) stunned markets on Thursday, when it scrapped its three - year - old peg of 1.20 Swiss francs per euro.

International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagard said Thursday the Swiss central bank's announcement that it would remove a 3 - year - old cap of 1.20 francs per euro was «a bit of a surprise.»

At age ninety and with no heirs, Jeanne agreed to sell her apartment to Raffray for the price of a low monthly subsistence payment of 2,500 francs.

The chart below shows the price of Gold expressed in Swiss Francs.

Borrow in the low interest rate currency (Yen, Swiss Francs, Offshore Yuan), and invest in the high interest rate currency (US dollars, NZ dollars, Australian dollars, Korean Won, Indian Rupee, etc.) Again, it all depends where you are in the cycle, as to whether this is a good trade or not.