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Examples of pennyworth


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They have bought their food in half-pennyworths and pennyworths.
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Figuratively speaking, we only grow wheat in halfpennyworths and pennyworths in this country, and an industry cannot be made to pay on that basis to-day.
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There is no doubt that women are being treated as pennyworths in the country.
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When you get down to the very poor they have to balance their weekly budget by pennyworths, and they have to buy tea by pennyworths or twopennyworths.
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Every pennyworth of capacity which is not used is an on-cost on the production of the capacity which is being used.
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My ration was 10-pennyworth of scrag end of neck of mutton.
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I am therefore encouraged to put in my pennyworth.
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Today, owing to rationing, all that is available is two-thirds of one pennyworth of meat for each person served with a meal.
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We never bought a pennyworth and that is all there is to the whole matter.
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They could not attract a pennyworth of income without using the property of creative artists and other copyright owners.
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Would it not be much more advisable to give an additional pennyworth of rationed food to the miner's household?
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He is ruining the ship for the sake of a pennyworth of tar.
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In many cases they are not asking for a pennyworth of compensation.
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In some instances not a pennyworth of work was being done to the house.
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He receives not a pennyworth of compensation at all.
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I should like to spend my pennyworth on the complaints issue.
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If it is nationalized, it would not make a pennyworth of difference to the bulk of the people of the country.
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I am not justifying a pennyworth of waste—of course not-—but it will cost money.
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One got a pennyworth, another twopennyworth, and a third threepennyworth.
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I should like to put in my pennyworth of congratulation and thankfulness.
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We can make sufficient pottery in our country without a pennyworth being brought from overseas.
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I am advised that when a man asks for a glass of whisky he receives one pennyworth of whisky and pays about ls.
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The dollars that are hypothetically saved represent roughly two-thirds of a pennyworth of imported flour per week per person in this country.
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Neither of those speculators did a pennyworth of productive work in connection with that land.
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Do not heap up a pennyworth of unnecessary debt.
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There will not be a single pennyworth less of trade done.
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The servant will be relieved of a penny, and that pennyworth of actuarial value will be a present from the master to the servant.
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Therefore, the proposal would not make a pennyworth of practical difference.
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I do not believe the veterinary profession would be a pennyworth better off.
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The average midday meal consists of a pennyworth of bones boiled with a few vegetables.
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What can you do with two-thirds of one pennyworth of meat?
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I am sure that if you had anything to do with it you would increase it by more than a pennyworth.
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Ownership of land never gave land a pennyworth of value; only the efforts of the people have given it any value.
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The only people being punished are those not responsible for the corruption and the graft, those who did not get a pennyworth of graft.
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When once the children are out in the world no one will deny that a pennyworth of practical help is worth a bucketful of tears of either joy or sorrow.
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The meat supplied in the remaining cases is equivalent to no more than about one-third of a pennyworth of meat per week on the domestic ration.
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In these days, when the weekly carcase meat ration is only six-pennyworth a head, a measure which will help to increase our livestock is one of considerable importance.
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There were not even the beginnings of social legislation; not a pennyworth, or even a farthingsworth of compensation for injuries sustained in the course of employment.
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You could take rationing off butter and bacon tomorrow, and it would not make a pennyworth of difference, because your price levels are serving as the corrective.
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Is it not the case that few of the 5½ million tenants whose rents are now likely to be raised will benefit by a single extra pennyworth of repairs?
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If we can—we can easily do it—strike out one and a half pages without making a pennyworth of difference to what is enacted, surely that is what we should do.
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She has only sold 2 ounces of acid drops and a pennyworth of mint rock in 7 weeks.
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