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词汇 example_english_twopenny
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Examples of twopenny


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It was literature of the previous generation that wound up on twopenny bookstalls and in the readers used by working-class schools, which depended on out-of-copyright material.
The estimate is based on the issues of twopenny stamps during the preceding year.
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I believe that the most active councils spend the equivalent of only a twopenny rate.
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Therefore, it is only right that what used to be the old penny machine should be regarded as the twopenny machine of today.
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There was to be a loan of £80,000, and there was this £600 per annum or a twopenny rate for advertising.
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If the twopenny scale was substituted the effect would be that the one candidate, standing alone, would spend £188, and one joint candidate would spend £141.
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It is a matter of major importance; not a trifling, twopenny-halfpenny matter.
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Do not take their pennies and twopennies from them.
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Some of the schemes to be carried out may cost more than a twopenny rate.
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It uses these twopenny-halfpenny exercises in order to raise money.
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Civil servants and others, too, often tend to think in terms of a twopenny tram ride to the nearest hospital in the city.
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It would be a twopenny-halfpenny place, with merely a jetty of some character, which would not have a statutory backing.
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To-day we have not only the original shilling pool, but sixpenny pools, twopenny pools, penny pools and even the halfpenny pool.
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Today the penny machine, in virtue and in truth, is really the twopenny machine.
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The product of a twopenny rate from the county councils is £28,000, and with miscellaneous receipts of approximately f 6,0o0 the total is £65,000.
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It was not a twopenny-half-penny point at all.
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The effect of an inquiry might be to force the expenditure up to a twopenny rate.
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I do not think that this twopenny-halfpenny railway rate remission is really going to make a very important difference either to coal or anything else.
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But why take a twopenny rate this year?
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It seems rather mean and paltry to charge that sum of £75,000 against the twopenny contributions of the children.
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Before the war it had an efficient fire service for a twopenny rate.
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It is more likely that it will turn into a twopenny lolly.
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The ratepayers, presumably under the twopenny rate, make up the difference to the railway and buy the tickets from it.
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They threw away controls, and did not care a twopenny toss for the national well-being.
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Their only internal resource is a twopenny rate, for which they precept on the internal drainage boards, county councils, and county boroughs in their area.
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