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In this year’s state budget the allocation of funds for information and culture was raised by 125 percent, the steepest in any section, to 110 crores, or 1.1 billion rupees, or $21.5 million.
From New York Times • Apr. 14, 2012
He freed seven crores of people from the chains of slavery.
From Time Magazine Archive
He then summoned to the place no less than three crores and half, or thirty millions and half of teeruts, or angels, who preside each over his special place of religions worship.
From A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II by Sleeman, William
There remained the reading of papers, filled with words unintelligible to English ears, with lacs and crores, zemindars and aumils, sunnuds and perwarmahs, jaghires and nuzzurs.
From Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 1 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron
His son and successor, Nusseer-od Deen Hyder, spent nine crores and thirty lacs; and when he died, on the 7th of July, 1837, he left only seventy lacs in the reserved treasury.
From A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II by Sleeman, William
