(n.) A Spanish dollar; also, an Argentine, Chilian, Colombian, etc., coin, equal to from 75 cents to a dollar; also, a pound weight.
Example Sentences:
(1) Each is estimated to make up to 100,000 pesos (£70,000) a year in a country where 30% of the population live below the poverty line.
(2) The association's vice president, Luis Peña, proposed at the time that transactions conducted in cash be limited to about 50,000 pesos (£2,400).
(3) The five worst-performing currencies this year have been the Argentinian peso and Brazilian real, with losses of more than 30% versus the dollar, the South African rand, Turkish lira and the Russian rouble, which have tumbled more than 18 %.
(4) Amnesty’s researcher spoke to two people said to be paid killers, who take orders from a police officer who pays them 5,000 pesos ($100) for each drug user killed and 10,000 to 15,000 pesos for each alleged drug dealer killed.
(5) These 12-peso morsels are pure corazón Mexicano (heart of Mexico).
(6) For every peso spent on volunteers, the Philippine Red Cross receives eight pesos worth of service and improved service delivery.
(7) With police officers taking home a monthly salary of just 3,500 pesos (£178), they make easy pickings for the cartels.
(8) Based on the average cost per case, the analysis disclosed that for every peso (constant 1983 currency) that IMSS spent on family planning services to its urban population during 1972-1984 inclusive, the agency saved nine pesos.
(9) In the two C-141 transport planes that carried them, they had packed: 23 wooden crates; 12 suitcases and bags, and various boxes, whose contents included enough clothes to fill 67 racks; 413 pieces of jewellery, including 70 pairs of jewel-studded cufflinks; an ivory statue of the infant Jesus with a silver mantle and a diamond necklace; 24 gold bricks, inscribed “To my husband on our 24th anniversary”; and more than 27m Philippine pesos in freshly-printed notes.
(10) "I would not be surprised if it can go as high as 250 billion [pesos, $5.8bn, £3.6bn]," Balisacan told Reuters, commenting on the likely cost of reconstruction.
(11) Alejandro Hope, a prominent commentator, tweeted : “Virgilio Andrade surprises the world by concluding that there wasn’t, isn’t, and never will be any conflict of interest in the Higa case.” Mexico's finance minister plunges government deeper into crisis Read more Andrade told reporters that his investigation had found no evidence that either the president nor his minister had helped the holding company, Grupo Higa, and its subsidiaries, obtain the 22 contracts it currently maintains with the federal government, worth a total of 1,300m pesos ($76m).
(12) More recently, living costs for such foreigners have been driven down even further as the prospect of a Trump presidency has caused the Mexican peso to sink.
(13) The devalued peso precipitated a swift recovery in exports and the country soon swung into a massive trade surplus.
(14) The Mexican government offered a reward of 60m pesos ($3.8m) for information leading to the drug lord’s recapture, but the escape was extremely embarrassing for the government .
(15) He said this involved Rivera paying 10.5m pesos ($635,000) in rent for the period the family occupied the mansion, with the company returning the 14.5m pesos ($875,00) she had already made in payments on the mansion.
(16) Facebook Twitter Pinterest El gobierno mexicano ha realizado muchos intentos por luchar contra el problema del peso generalizado del país.
(17) Like most barra soldiers, Diaz started by roaming the streets around the stadiums charging fans 40-60 pesos (£8-10) to park their cars near the stadium.
(18) That shouldn’t be taken for granted now that Britain is about to take a giant political and economic leap into the dark – and sterling has already plunged further this year than the Argentinian peso.
(19) A decrease was achieved from the hospital rate admission by diarrhea and dehydration, throw the oral dehydration therapy in a 66%, the mortality rate was reduced 72% and an expenditure of $619,243,480.00 pesos in drugs and auxiliary examinations of diagnostic was avoided.
(20) It tumbled as much as 13%, a huge move for a currency, crashing through 20 pesos per dollar.
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Example Sentences:
(1) The structure, indicated as 6-(3-methyl-2-butenylamino)-2-methylthio-9-beta-D-ribofuranosylpurine, C(16)H(23)N(5)0(4)S, on the basis of low-and high-reso!ution mass spectrometry, was established by unequivocal synthesis.
(2) Low molecular weight proteins were resolvable into a few diffuse and streaky bands by dodecyl sulfate and chloral hydrate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, the former giving superior reso-ution.