At the start of the First World War, the Currency and Bank Notes Act 1914 was passed which granted temporary powers to HM Treasury for issuing banknotes to the value of £ 1 and 10 /- ( ten shillings ) in the UK.

At the same time the African and Oceanic collections that had been temporarily housed in 6 Burlington Gardens were given a new gallery in the North Wing funded by the Sainsbury family-with the donation valued at £ 25 million.

At the start of 2008, there were 59 building societies in the UK, with total assets exceeding £ 360 billion.

At this point Italian financier Benedict Spinola had loaned Oxford over £ 4, 000 for his 15 month long continental tour, while in England over 100 tradesmen were seeking settlement of debts totalling thousands of pounds.

At the end of November it was agreed that the purchasers of Oxford's lands would pay his entire debt of some £ 3, 306 due to Court of Wards over a five-year period, finishing in 1592.

At the closure of the UK Film Council on 31 March 2011, The Guardian reported that " The UKFC's entire annual budget was a reported £ 3m, while the cost of closing it down and restructuring is estimated to have been almost four times that amount.

* 2006 – At least six men stage Britain's biggest robbery, stealing £ 53m ( about $ 92. 5 million or € 78 million ) from a Securitas depot in Tonbridge, Kent.

At the end of 2003, GCHQ moved to a new circular HQ ( popularly known as ' the Doughnut '): at the time, it was the second-largest public-sector building project in Europe, with an estimated cost of £ 337 million.

At the end of 2008, deposits in Jersey banks totalled £ 206 billion, down £ 6. 2 billion from £ 212. 3 billion at the start of the year.

* 2002 – At a Sotheby's auction, Peter Paul Rubens ' painting The Massacre of the Innocents is sold for £ 49. 5million ( US $ 76. 2 million ) to Lord Thomson.

At the start of the 1994 – 95 season Dalglish paid a record £ 5 million for Chris Sutton, with whom Shearer formed an effective strike partnership.

At the same time, plans were made for a new South Stand, which was estimated to cost £ 60, 000, however the tender price came out at GB £ 90, 000, a compromise was made, and it was decided to build a new upper South Stand costing £ 64, 000 instead, with the Cardiff Athletic Club contributing £ 15, 000 and the remainder coming from the WRU.

At the start of the project, the total cost was estimated at £ 2. 25M, although by time it was finished in 1984, it had risen by nearly four times that amount.

At present the Prime Minister receives £ 142, 500 including a salary of £ 65, 737 as a Member of Parliament.

At £ 29, 975, the 968 Sport was priced £ 5, 500 lower than the standard 968, but had most of the latter's desirable " luxuries " and consequently outsold it by a large margin ( 306 of the 968 Sport models compared to 40 standard 968 coupés ).

At 17, he spent some time in prison because he bought forged £ 50 notes from a friend, who later informed the police.

** At a Sotheby's auction, Peter Paul Rubens ' painting " The Massacre of the Innocents " ( first version ) is sold for £ 49. 5million ( US $ 76. 2 million ) to Kenneth Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet.

At the age of 25, he was elected a member of the French Academy of Sciences, France's most elite scientific society, for an essay on street lighting and in recognition of his earlier research.

At 25 ° C and atmospheric pressure, one liter of water dissolves 3. 26 g or 1. 125 L of gaseous chlorine.

At room temperature the magnitude of this fractionation is roughly 0. 25 ‰ ( 0. 025 %) per atomic mass unit ( AMU ).

At the Battle of Jena-Auerstedt on October 14, 1806 – when Napoleon invaded Prussia and defeated the massed Prussian-Saxon army commanded by Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick – he was captured, one of the 25, 000 prisoners captured that day as the Prussian army disintegrated.

At the 9 August 2008 Legislative Assembly general election it gained a significant swing, gaining 11 out of the 25 seats.

At the Central Committee plenum of 25 January 1955, Khrushchev accused Malenkov of ideological deviations at the same level as former, anti-Stalinist Bukharin and Alexey Rykov of the 1920s.

At least 525, 000 people — more than 12 % of El Salvador's population at the time and perhaps 25 % of the rural poor — benefited from agrarian reform, and more than 22 % of El Salvador's total farmland was transferred to those who previously worked the land but did not own it.

At any one moment, about 25 % of the plasma membrane of a fibroblast is made up of coated pits.

At each end is a goal 2. 14 m ( 7 feet ) high and 3. 66 m ( 12 ft ) wide measured from the inner sides of the posts and crossbar, and an approximately semi-circular area 14. 63 m ( 16 yd ) from the goal known as the shooting circle ( or D or arc ), bounded by a solid line, with a dotted line 5 m ( 5 yd 6 in — this marking was not established until after metric conversion ) from that, as well as lines across the field 22. 90 m ( 25 yd ) from each end-line ( generally referred to as the 23 m lines ) and in the center of the field.

At the 2011 general election, Fine Gael gained 25 seats bringing them to a total of 76.

At the same time, several of Madero's allies denounced him for being overly reconciliatory with the Porfirians and with not moving aggressively forward with reforms: thus, on 25 November 1911, Emiliano Zapata issued his Plan of Ayala, denouncing Madero for being uninterested in pursuing land reform.

At the same time, employees were given a further discount between 25 and 29 percent on selected models.

At independence in 1980, the Zimbabwe dollar ( ZWD ) was worth about USD 1. 25.

At the 1999 World Cup, Cronje finished with 98 runs at 12. 25 as South Africa was eliminated after the famous tied semi-final against Australia at Edgbaston.

At the end of 2009 financial year, the IKEA group had 267 stores in 25 countries.

At the 1928 Reichstag elections, the Nazis polled less than 2 % of the vote in Berlin compared with 33 % for the Social Democrats and 25 % for the Communists.

At 25, he came into a small inheritance from his mother and used a portion of it to repay De Warens for her financial support of him.

At the beginning of the decade, he contracted to paint 25 works in return for a monthly stipend for the next three years and in 1865, another patron, Emile Gavet, began commissioning pastels for a collection that would eventually include 90 works.

At the Supper itself his place was next to Christ on Whose breast he leaned ( John 13: 23, 25 ).

At the age of 25, in the summer of 1835, Carson attended an annual mountain man rendezvous, which was held along the Green River in southwestern Wyoming.

At least 25 titles were recorded, from Kit Carson, Prince of the Gold Hunters ( 1849 ) through Kit Carson, King of Scouts ( 1923 ).

At that time Intel's President, Luke J. Valenter, stated that the microcontroller was one of the most successful in the company's history, and expanded the division's budget over 25 %.

At least 25 regions worldwide yielded metazoan fossils prior to the classical Cambrian boundary.

At 9: 03: 25 am CST, the first of over 1, 800 9-1-1 calls related to the bombing was received by Emergency Medical Services Authority ( EMSA ).