He had saved New France from bankruptcy with cargoes of furs that in four years amounted to half a million of modern money.
Traders had gone West with less than $2000 worth of goods in modern money, and returned three years later with a sheer profit of a quarter of a million.
Modern money, in general, however, rests on a system of free, even where not strictly gratuitous, coinage.
The practical students of the money market, who are immersed in the facts of modern money, have got little help from it, and have often been scornful of it.
Reckoned in modern money, the tax was probably at least twenty times two marks, or about $128.
The wealthiest spectators gave more than twelve shillings (in modern money) for their places in the proscenium-boxes on each side of the stage.
Though Bacon received more than this from Essex, the magnitude of the sum discredits the tradition--it is equivalent to something like £5000 in modern money.
L30 in modern money; so that the twenty volumes of Aristotle which Chaucer's Clerk of Oxford had at his bed's head could scarcely have failed to cost him the value of three average citizens' houses in a great town.
His wife also had pensions from both, so that the regular income of the household amounted to some L1000 a year of modern money.
For all this, which he was allowed to do by deputy, Chaucer received two shillings a day, or something like L450 a year of modern money.
L, or (according to the customary computations) in modern money of 1500L, per annum.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "modern money" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
