Voorbeelden van sixpence

• While the court admitted the value of the wood was 'trifling' it still saw fit to impose a fine of seven shillings and sixpence.

• A version in traditional notation was also available for purchase at one shilling and sixpence.

• Junior members, admitted in 1907, paid threepence or sixpence, depending on age.

• But sixpence a night will buy all natural reluctance out of the way, and the babies must take their chance.

• Are more sixpences to be minted to enable a proper trial and review to take place during the conversion period?

• It is a fact of common knowledge that four sixpences make a florin, and this is what makes shopping possible, not lightning arithmetical ability.

• Seven and sixpence in 1878 would be worth about a fiver now, but people are very much richer.

• The cloak-room attendant who collects sixpences free of tax probably makes a gross income far exceeding that of many hard-working professional men.

• She ekes out her housekeeping by threepences and sixpences.

• Is he aware that herring, which once one could buy at six for sixpence—that is in old money—is now a luxury fish?

• A commanding officer with nineteen years' service is sixpence a day worse off.

• The board's report contains a full assessment of the likelihood of the sixpence continuing to circulate freely within the decimal currency system.

• There is no use splitting small sums like this, and while we are about it we might as well make it sixpence for all certificates.

• This means that 12,000 sixpences have to be played through the machine for 3,000 sixpences, or £75, to be cleared to pay the duty.

• To raise £75 requires the clearing of 3,000 sixpences.