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• I think that something like 12,000 men take the nine-sixteenths of a penny in lieu of the ration.

• Is he going to do anything whatever to increase employment or to lessen the price of commodities by getting his five-sixteenths?

• We give nine-sixteenths of a penny in lieu of the rum ration.

• The man can either have the rum or nine-sixteenths of a penny.

• The holes in the screen are five-sixteenths of an inch diameter.

• Is he going to employ an extra number of men through getting this five-sixteenths?

• I believe we have stocks in the country amounting to fourteen-sixteenths of our prewar consumption.

• To a newspaper costing a penny it will add one-ninth of a penny, and to one costing three-halfpence it will add three-sixteenths of a penny.

• There the education authority only incur an expenditure of nine-sixteenths of a penny on the valuation of the county.

• He now says in the fair name of logic and justice, we must not have eight-sixteenths; we must have nine-sixteenths.

• He argued as if there was very little difference between nine-sixteenths of a penny and a penny.

• I understand that the daily rum costs three-sixteenths of a penny, while the men who do not take rum get nine-sixteenths of a penny instead.

• My suggestion is that eight-sixteenths, or a halfpenny, should be given, and that amount is one which could be easily calculated.

• The sort of problem that will confront growers from now onwards is packing their fruit to within a variation of three-sixteenths of an inch throughout in each pack.

• I suppose it is a little difficult to calculate fractions, and if you offer nine-sixteenths of a penny, it is not so attractive as the full penny.