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As for Rodrigo Lira, well, I already explained what had become of him.

Another bad out with the garbage from lockers Lira , transparent easily seen, easily forgotten throw garbage.

The existence of the euro means that there are no George Soros-type speculators able to organise runs on the lira, peseta or drachma.

figure out the relative value of the Turkish lira, not a small matter with its many zeros.

Curiously the crunch has not shaken faith in two currencies favoured by yield-hungry investors: the Brazilian real and Turkish lira.

The Cyprus Pound (currency code CYP), also known unofficially as the Cyprus Lira (from Greek) is the currency used in Cyprus.

I had no change in my wallet, just a five lira note.

The weakening of the Turkish lira has had some effect on these prices, but if measured in pounds sterling the rise is still a notable 25%.

Turkey's economy is deeply unstable; its financing problems have left the lira at record lows against the dollar.

If we still had the mark and the lira we could leave the foreign exchange market to sort it out.

This method of naming coins weighed heavily in naming of the Spanish peso and of the Italian lira.

And inflation has been held down, partly thanks to a strong lira.

GDP shrank by almost 6%, the lira collapsed, most of the banks had to be rescued and the IMF was called in (again).

"Thank you, my American friend. You pay five lira . . . and a cigarette, please. "

Over the next few years the lira fell by roughly 40% against the D-mark.

Now they realise they had bought a lot more of the lira and a lot less of the Deutschmark than they thought.

The word lira is the Arabic translation of pound.

The Turkish lira is slipping against the dollar, GDP is expected to shrink this year and unemployment is rising.

Turkey's central bank also intervened in currency markets to hold down the lira.

This renders the economy susceptible to swings in markets, as the beating the lira has taken in recent weeks shows.

Schoolchildren, among them war orphans, pack a morning assembly at a public school in the northern city of Lira.

'We are forming an economic strategic partnership, ' Mr. Erdogan said. 'In all of our relations, we have agreed to use the lira and yuan. '

The Kenyan shilling and Turkish lira would remain under pressure on worries about horticulture and tourism.

Many Neapolitans earn their first lira selling contraband cigarettes in the city's maze of alleys.

He paid 3bn lira (at the time about $1. 5m), one-seventh of his annual revenues, for the privilege.

Somehow, however, it also took half an hour, by which time the meter had wracked up 40 lira.

Mr Erdogan said trade would in future be conducted in lira and renminbi, rather than in dollars.

Lira Wessex, Imperial engineer, built her work on the shoulders of giants.

Before the Euro, the Sammarinese lira was coupled to and exchangeable with the Italian lira.

The resulting "new lira" will reduce the price of Italian exports.

I'd do the Elgin Marbles with a sledgehammer and wipe my ass with the Mona Lira.

I think we should not rule out the possibility, before the decade is out, of the rebirth of currencies such as the drachma, lira and peseta.

It is the fourth highest valued currency after the Kuwaiti Dinar, Maltese Lira, and the Bahraini dinar.

You have to put up two hundred lira to make twenty.

Moreover, the small, vulnerable economy has suffered because the Turkish lira is legal tender.

Twenty lira, signalled the driver.

"OK, four lira. But if you have so many children she cannot be that ugly. "

"I only have two lira. You do understand that, don't you? "

Turkey's central bank lowered its key lending rate half a percentage point to 5. 75%; as a result, the lira fell 2% against the dollar.

Where can I exchange my dollars for lira?

Turkey put $300m into the lira.

He has promised poor families a bonus of 600 Turkish lira ($390) a month.

Initially he sold toys worth 1, 000 lira (then about $1) to street hawkers.

We have bought birds for 500 to 600 new lira [roughly $400 to $500 US] and they tell us that they have to come to take them away.

"Yes, my friend. Very good. Twelve lira, please. "

India's rupee slipped 2. 6 per cent and the Turkish lira 5. 9 per cent.

Six noughts will be removed from the face value of the lira;