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Examples of twopence


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Is he further aware that it is quite fantastic to pay a tax of half-a-crown on a tumbler, which probably cost twopence?
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It referred to livers, lights, tripe, guts and other things, and fixed prices for all those extraordinary commodities ranging from twopence to four shillings.
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It began with nine-tenths of twopence and in a few months rose to nine-tenths of five pence.
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There is this quite deplorable business of paying twopence on the pier.
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Taking the average, the equivalent of twopence is being rolled up for the benefit of all the insurers.
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We have all these twopence-halfpenny privileges which have been brought into operation in connection with the dockyard system of the country.
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They are extremely poor people and pennies and twopences are very valuable to them and the country is rich enough to do without them.
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Fortunately, millions of miners in the past have put into union funds their halfpennies, pennies and twopences.
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For all that the innkeeper is allowed to charge threepence; it used to be twopence halfpenny.
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The charge for barley water is twopence, not sixpence per glass.
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I think it was between twopence and threepence.
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Indeed, hardly a day went by without there being a price rise on something—not halfpennies, but pennies, twopences and threepences.
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The efficiency of labour has gone down enormously, and it has not mattered twopence to the employer whether it went to practically nothing.
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I do not care twopence whom he sends in his place.
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Twopence per 1,000 feet seems in itself to be a small thing.
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Is it reasonable that every use these subcribers have for their telephone is twopence extra?
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This is not merely a matter of twopence on the pound.
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I know twopence per week is not very much.
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The chief difficulty seems to have been the objection to raising the rate in excess of twopence from the county councils.
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Do you think the miners will care twopence for that?
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Is the twopence collected in order to pay the licence charges?
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Give us twopence and we will be satisfied.
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Fifty million pounds saved 10 years hence is so visionary a thing that no one really cares twopence about it.
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Why not say that the amount involved by another twopence in the meat ration is something we ought not to worry about?
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I do not care twopence about the past.
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