Sentence examples of "livres" in French with translation "pound"

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"Quatre livres cinquante" dit Bob. "Four pounds fifty," says Bob.
Je voudrais trois livres de poulet. I'd like three pounds of chicken.
J'aimerais trois livres de poulet. I'd like three pounds of chicken.
Ce sac m'a couté six livres. This bag cost me 6 pounds.
Tom a perdu plus de cent livres. Tom lost more than a hundred pounds.
Il faut que je perde cinq livres. I need to lose five pounds.
La balance semble décalée de deux livres. The scale seems to be off by two pounds.
Elle a acheté deux livres de beurre. She bought two pounds of butter.
L'amende pour crachat est de cinq livres. The penalty for spitting is five pounds.
Il a parié deux livres sur le cheval. He bet two pounds on the horse.
"Quatre livres, quatre-vingt-dix pences", répond Bob. "Four pounds, ninety pence," Bob answers.
La semaine dernière j'ai repris 5 livres. Last week I gained back five pounds.
Le bébé pesait 7 livres à la naissance. The baby weighed seven pounds at birth.
Je n'avais pas plus de 3 livres sterling. I had no more than three pounds.
Parce qu'un seule minute coûte presque quatre livres. Because just one minute costs nearly four pounds.
Mon revenu dépasse mes dépenses de cinq cents livres. My income falls short of my expenditure by five hundred pounds.
Ça lui a coûté cinq livres pour le racheter. It cost him five pounds to buy it back.
Pourrais-je changer ces livres contre des dollars, s'il vous plaît ? Could I change these pounds for dollars, please?
Mr. Bingley avait hérité d’environ cent mille livres de son père. Mr. Bingley inherited property to the amount of nearly a hundred thousand pounds from his father.
Il est plus heureux de trouver un homme ou une femme heureuse qu'un billet de cinq livres. A happy man or woman is a better thing to find than a five-pound note.
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