Francs in example sentence

Instead of asking for a gratuity of fifty thousand francs, disguised under some head or other that would pass in the budget, and allowing M. de Frilair to win this pettifogging action for fifty thousand francs, the Marquis took offence.

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Ask the next 10 people you see on the streets, "Hey, do you think it's worthwhile to spend billions of Swiss francs looking for the Higgs boson?"

And yet we're spending billions of Swiss francs on this problem.

For every time that you announce that you had a tails throw, you get paid five francs.

So if you say I had two tails throws, you get paid 10 francs.

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