6 sentences with 'dollar'
Example sentences and phrases with the word dollar and other words derived from it.
• « To pay the striking workers, the German government simply printed more money, undermining its value. This, in turn, led to hyperinflation: the deutsche mark simply collapsed as a currency, with the US dollar worth almost 10,000,000,000,000 marks by the end of the year. »
• « In 1944, a team of politicians and economists from several Allied nations met in New Hampshire and devised the basis for the post-war economic order, the Bretton Woods Agreement. This agreement fixed the dollar as the monetary reserve of the Western world, created the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank to stabilise the international economy, and fixed currency exchange rates. »
• « One day in the gully I found a white stone the size of a silver dollar, with tiny bumps on it - a shark's tooth, I thought. I sent it to a museum, and a month later a box appeared in my mailbox. Inside the thin onion paper wrapper were these magical words: "Distal end of the metapodial bone of a prehistoric camel". It was part of the leg bone of a camel. »
• « When she and her husband took supplies to another household, the lady of the house burst into tears. "She told us she had only a dollar and 83 cents," Linda recalls. »
• « Moreover, 30 cents of every dollar invested in Spain from abroad in 1990 stayed in Catalonia: a total of more than 5 billion dollars. »