The ground rents are worth about a fiver, but each time such companies write a letter they seem to stick on an administration charge.
Even a fiver means that those children will live in poverty.
Seven and sixpence in 1878 would be worth about a fiver now, but people are very much richer.
The deduction of a fiver a week will make matters even worse.
People are becoming deeply indebted to the social fund and to loan sharks, yet we are considering a schedule that will deduct another fiver.
I do not want to be a nine-to-fiver.
The alternative would be to make the addition a worthwhile sum—for example, a fiver.
A fiver or £10 does not pay off the debt and is far less than the cost of trying to collect the money.
