"Pound sterlings"

[sagehen]

>>From a clip heard on NPR:
Reporting on his and Rice's visit to Iraq yesterday, British Foreign
Minister Jack Straw clearly spoke of the "billions of dollars and hundreds
of millions of pound sterlings" expended by the US & Britain.
A. Murie

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