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Their anniversary is on the sixteenth (of June).
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.
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.
My suggestion is that eight-sixteenths, or a halfpenny, should be given, and that amount is one which could be easily calculated.
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.
He argued as if there was very little difference between nine-sixteenths of a penny and a penny.
He now says in the fair name of logic and justice, we must not have eight-sixteenths; we must have nine-sixteenths.
There the education authority only incur an expenditure of nine-sixteenths of a penny on the valuation of the county.
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.