| 词汇 | example_english_tuppence |
| 释义 | Examples of tuppenceThese 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. There is all the difference in the world between being paid tuppence and being paid £1 million to do something. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Defence companies seeking to diversify will try anything for tuppence—or in this case 11p. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They do not care tuppence about the men, and the women, who have to endure the consequences of their proposals. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In other words, the pledge that is embodied in the clause that is being debated is not worth tuppence. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The person does not care tuppence whether he is in a black maria or at the police station. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Nobody cares tuppence about the people who occupy these homes. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I could put it more bluntly and say it looks as though they do not care tuppence about unemployment. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not care tuppence about the wording of the new clauses. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not care tuppence about his personal character. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They do not "care tuppence" how they get it. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In point of fact, the people did not care tuppence. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 People as a whole do not care tuppence about the political colour of the councillors who represent them—they just want good government from them. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 A person who has four children and has been married for four years gets tuppence, and so on. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 How can she possibly justify a figure of tuppence a head? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 One might be guilty of theft, an arrestable offence, if one had stolen tuppence. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not care tuppence whether they are keen to accept the burden. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Most employers could not care tuppence for national security. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The tuppence off petrol sales pales into insignificance when compared with the rise of 15p a litre since the election. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He would have had a fit if he had had to put tuppence on the old rate. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I believe in a commercial approach: nothing for nothing and precious little for tuppence. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He had to get rid of conscription by the end of 1962; and he did not care tuppence how he did it. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not think his analogy is worth tuppence. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The employer will get 43·8 hours a week for £68 less tuppence. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 However, those of us who continue to be concerned will continue to have our tuppence worth whenever possible, and await events. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The total deductions amounted to £2·48, leaving the princely sum of tuppence. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He does not appear to give tuppence for the gross distortion under the existing system. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They do not care tuppence about the balance of payments deficit. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 My constituent could have turned up at each branch meeting and collected his penny or tuppence a week, but he did not wish to do that. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I would not give you tuppence for that schedule in terms of the ability of not the more reputable, but the less reputable, employers to put pressure on their employees. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I would not put tuppence on it. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Considering how much the average family spends in supermarkets, if we can get supermarket pricing policy right, it would be the equivalent of a penny or tuppence off income tax. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They would sell thousands of acres at rock bottom prices next to the railways, roads and canals, and those who bought it would not care tuppence for the coal. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In a sense, it would not matter tuppence if it were not for the fact that the guidelines are being used to penalise local authorities that have exceeded them. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Years ago pensioners took out insurance for pennies or tuppence, and thought that when the policies matured they would provide enough money at least to bury them. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Each number cost a mere tuppence, thereby ensuring a wide readership. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Tuppence ascends a ladder to a second floor window, where she sees a woman strapped to the bed and writhing in pain. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Tuppence returns early to the flat, where she interrupts her mistress's preparations to flee. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. One official lamented that it cost a shilling to collect tuppence. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. After inadvertently causing a run on the bank, the children give their father their tuppence, expressing the hope that it will make things right. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The price of the newspaper was originally tuppence but was eventually raised to three pence. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The fare was tuppence up, penny down. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Shortenings such as tuppence are now rarely heard and terms such as tanner (the silver sixpence), which previously designated amounts of money, are no longer used. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Perhaps that is so because, at an early age, we have spent our tuppences with parental support in a controlled environment, and have developed a responsible attitude to gambling. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 People do not care tuppence about who tabled the amendment. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He knew that, out in the big bad world, there were employers who would speculate and get away with paying workers tuppence an hour. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In the days when those in the party opposite did not care tuppence, my predecessor in the division milked it. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In the former case, the person concerned hardly cares tuppence because they have, as we say in the trade, "form as long as your leg". From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The person who is deprived of his wild flowers does not care tuppence what the thief will do with them. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He put in his tuppence worth of bombast, but he was rather off target. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Alas, the gap has widened fractionally since then, though it would still not amount to tuppence halfpenny. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He cannot care tuppence whether it is reported or not. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I wouldn't give tuppence for all of the rest! From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I believe that that operation would still be ethically doubtful if the sum were a mere tuppence. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Suppose it does not care tuppence about doubling the standard of life in the next twenty-five years. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 One firm has a gantry crane and one does not put such cranes up afresh for tuppence. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is a tiny minority who could not care tuppence one way or the other. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 No one cared tuppence, apparently, when she got her damages and the money was paid into court. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 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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