| 词汇 | example_english_penny |
| 释义 | Examples of pennyThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. 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. 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. The penny, however, and the question one inevitably confronted about whether to spend it to access the lavatory, has a much longer history. He does not even give a penny to them. With anxiety about income from pensions, many people felt they would need every penny of their assets in the future. Each such pound contained twenty shillings and each shilling twelve pence (refer red to as d). His portion of the rent was three and one-half pence per year. The percentage in the text is calculated from the original figures (26.87 pence for core workers and 22.57 pence for casual workers). The small denominations were still called pence and not cents as they did not represent decimal fractions. The only entertainments commonly available were schoolroom concerts, which were ' penny readings ' in name only. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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