Before she leaves the house Bernadette puts down her suitcase filled with clothes and accidentally picks up the suitcase containing the sixty million francs worth of jewelry.

The Egyptian government thus subscribed for eighty million francs worth of shares.

Daily he sells three to four thousand francs worth of portraits".

Hundreds of millions of francs worth of this gold was monetary gold plundered from the central banks of occupied countries.

Based on Tuesday's closing prices, Ecco shareholders will receive 272.42 Swiss francs worth of Adia stock for each of their current shares.

But the company is refusing to accept 10,000 Belgian-franc notes, which are worth about $250, unless a customer is buying more than 3,000 francs worth of merchandise.

For the last six years, since I was appointed manager here, we must have sold him thirty or forty thousand francs worth of stuff.

Later, he set himself up as a virtual viceroy of Andalusia, looting 1.5 million francs worth of art.

To make up for the merchants' lost business, he handed out coupons for 20 francs worth of goods from a barber, the Alilhalal butcher shop, a pedicurist.

It generates billions of francs worth of fees from electronic commerce, from train reservations to flower deliveries.