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He has calculated the costs down to the last penny.
When we were first married we had to pinch pennies just to get by.
It was only in the late 1820s that transactions in pounds, shillings and pence became virtually extinct.
It was those disadvantages which explain in part the persistence of accounts in pounds, shillings and pence until well into the nineteenth century.
This information complicates our assumptions about penny-weekly fiction; it also suggests that we need to rethink matters of form.
In cases like (17) the (implied) debt is referential, but the pennies to pay it off are not (yet).
Most of the staff of the technical universities and the research laboratories are now pensioners - and they work for pennies.
I think they were brought up saving money and being very careful with every penny they had that they just didn't want to spend it.
Accommodations for women included standard water closets available for their use at a charge of one penny.
While these were denominated in pounds, shillings and pence there was no parity of value.
By 1638 he and his wife were living in half of a four-room house, paying a yearly rent of twelve pence.
Without redirecting the focus of economic evaluation research, choosing in health care bears the risk to remain penny-wise but pound-foolish.
Without redirecting the focus of this research, choosing in health-care bears the risk to remain penny-wise but poundfoolish.
The corresponding blocks in would consist of a singleton block and k blocks of size 2, and hence cost only k pence in total.
Of these, 7 (58.3 per cent) were for 6 pence, one for 12d, two for 16d, one for 3s and one for 4s.
The eight pence he earned per day was, he said, substantial salary, especially when a man lived with a relative as he did.
Urinals were offered as a free public service by municipal governments, and men were often charged a penny for water closets.
