(1) Some years ago I had a yen to read some science fiction.

(2) Yet the Canadian dollar, Mexican peso, Taiwan dollar and Japanese yen all posted small gains against the greenback.

(3) Diesel, quite improbably, had always had a yen to act with the grande dame.

(4) She always had a yen to be a writer

(5) The history is that after the Plaza Accord of 1985, the dollar declined against the yen .

(6) But they should base it on the dollar, not the yen .

(7) A rise in the yen against the dollar reduces the value of exporters' profits when repatriated into Japanese currency, which contributes to deflation.

(8) And most particularly, can you name a price in dollars or yen or any other currency that you think the euro is actually going to go to before it rebounds?

(9) The recent weakness of the yen against the dollar to 110 might provide a further indication that unsterilised intervention is indeed occurring.

(10) If Koizumi has enjoyed some economic success, say critics, it has been through a combination of good luck and what many believe has been an artificial weakness of the yen against the dollar.

(11) And while homesickness and a yen to have the support of being the home team in a rough business lured the brothers back, they've set their sights on more travel eventually.

(12) But post Butler we know, not only that they can get it wrong on even the most vital and high profile issues, but that they have a particular yen for highly coloured material which exaggerates the threat.

(13) Whether it be for the lure of dollars or yen , or the start of a coaching career back in France remains to be seen.

(14) He's got a three-week Greyhound Discovery Pass, a map of mom-and-pop ski hills, and a yen to see the west from the vantage of a pungent window seat.

(15) The Japanese data bucks up the yen against the dollar and the Euro specially, after the poor US data and also not much better data coming forth from Europe.

(16) The dollar is falling most sharply against the euro and the yen .

(17) A buried yen to ski competitively came back in the early seventies, when the idea of a professional racing circuit in the States took hold.

(18) The dollar is strong because investors would rather hold dollars than yen or euros, not because the US Treasury says it should be.

(19) In the black heart of winter, 1959, Buddy Holly journeyed there with a miserable cold and a yen for home; his brief stay cured both.

(20) The dollar weakened against sterling, the euro and the yen .