And movement of capital does indeed mean changing British Pounds into Euros, or Swedish Krone, or Polish Zlotys.
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Her Majesty's Ministry of Defence (sic) tells me the prince's annual salary is between 37, 000 and 44, 000 British pounds.
The society has received two donations for the tomb so far, he said -- one worth 10, 000 British pounds.
That has prompted the Bank of England to consider steps to ensure that its ability to print British pounds isn't compromised, the person said.
One last possibility: You are using commodity futures to hedge risk-for example, on taking a consulting contract for which you will be paid in British pounds.
People are always going to want to hold British pounds and Japanese yen because people are always going to want to trade with Great Britain and Japan.
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The fund invests in futures contracts associated with U.S. dollars, euros, Japanese yen, Canadian dollars, Swiss francs, British pounds, Australian dollars, New Zealand dollars, Norwegian kroner and Swedish kronor.
The cost of a barrel of North Sea Brent crude hit a record before pulling back Thursday when priced in euros and British pounds, two currencies that have been weakening of late.
The penalty? 29.5 British Pounds paid to go toward books and supplies for Tanzanian schools, which the U.K. courts felt were harmed through the diversion of funds to bribing rather than education.
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However, they are subject to a different tax and regulatory system than other currencies, such as the dollar and even foreign currencies like euros or British pounds, which makes them cumbersome in transactions.
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Race organizers are also donating 2 British pounds to the One Fund Boston -- set up to help those most affected by the Boston bombing -- for each runner to cross the finish line.
The Gateshead facility also serves as a backup plant for the Bank of England, which has a separate contract with De La Rue to print British pounds, according to a Bank of England spokesman.
And while Tesco may still the dominant player in the U.K., with one in every 8 British pounds spent in its stores, sniping from antitrust regulators and increasingly stiff competition means Leahy is now looking to cut reliance on his own turf.
In a country trying to heal the wounds of hundreds of years of land dispossession and forced relocation, many people have come to blame outsiders with pockets full of British pounds or euros for pushing up prices, driving locals out of the housing market, or turning farmland into private game parks.
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Pinewood Shepperton, the film and television studios group, has said it will invest millions of pounds in British films.
Four years ago Sky TV pumped hundreds of millions of pounds into British football when they outbid terrestrial TV for broadcasting rights.
Unlike traditional journals, however, which cost British universities hundreds of millions of pounds a year to access, articles in eLife will be free to view on the web as soon as they are published.
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Maritime risk consultants Haymarket said the introduction of armed guards would save the British shipping and insurance industries millions of pounds.
She was closely involved in the negotiations that led to the al-Yamamah arms deal, selling British warplanes worth tens of billions of pounds to Saudi Arabia.
He paid very little for Donlin and then got a good deal for another remote deposit, Galore Creek, and its 14 million ounces of gold and 12 billion pounds of copper in northwestern British Columbia.
We've lost completely on a European army - that's actually bad for Europe because if they get this wrong they'll wreck it from the beginning anyway and we've lost on all the other agendas too - and now he's talking about bribing the people of Gibraltar with 30 million pounds to sell out their rights as British citizens.
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The British mobile-phone company has paid many millions of pounds so that the F1 team for which Mr Hamilton drives can be called Vodafone McLaren Mercedes.
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In recent months, investors have been lending tens of billions of pounds of interest-free money to the British government: only when the Exchequer wants to borrow for more than ten years has it been forced to pay a rate of interest that is likely to exceed the inflation rate (see here for more on this).
The Association of British Insurers says the damage is likely to cost insurers "tens of millions of pounds".
The result was a record loss for a British firm and a government bail-out that could cost taxpayers many billions of pounds.
"Customers should be assured that UK retailers always take the protection of cardholder data seriously and are continuing to invest millions of pounds to enhance existing security measures, " said Jane Milne of the British Retail Consortium.
With American rates rising and British rates seemingly on hold, there has been every reason to buy dollars and sell pounds.
Harry Herbert, manager of two leading British racing syndicates, says that horses that once sold for a couple of hundred thousand pounds now go for half a million.
For example, it allegedly paid 100, 000 pounds to police in the U.K. to get access to phone calls of British citizens.
British banks will not have to raise a bean, partly because they raised tens of billions of pounds of capital, much of it from taxpayers, in 2008 and 2009, and partly because they don't have massive loans to the likes of Greece and Italy.
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