| 词汇 | example_english_decimal-currency |
| 释义 | Examples of decimal currencyThese 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. If they could manage dual accounting, they could handle a single conversion to a single decimalcurrency. I am reminded of what happened when we switched to decimalcurrency; with the change of system came a substantial rise in prices. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I have always advocated a decimalcurrency for this country, but not this one. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is a great deal of talk at present about prices having risen because shopkeepers have rounded upwards on the introduction of decimalcurrency. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Furthermore, the fraction will preclude the simplicity which a decimalcurrency should enjoy. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 This practice will continue in a decimalcurrency system. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We all know in our hearts that we adopted what is just about the wrong decimalcurrency. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The board's report contains a full assessment of the likelihood of the sixpence continuing to circulate freely within the decimalcurrency system. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not want to take this opportunity to discuss the entire new decimalcurrency system. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We might instance the introduction of decimalcurrency as one such change. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 One of the radical changes which we shall see fairly soon will be the move to a decimalcurrency. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I think that we may now accept it as beyond argument that the advantage of decimalcurrency is unquestioned. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not believe that the changeover to decimalcurrency was responsible for the large-scale increases in prices. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am speaking about a decimalcurrency for this country. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The reason is that the whole point of having decimalcurrency is that the main unit should be divisible into 100 cents, without a fraction. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is the problem faced by the bus conductor who will operate, to start with, with our existing currency, and later with the decimalcurrency. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The change to decimalcurrency is not expected to affect university expenditure significantly. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is one small cloud, as big as a man's hand, which forecasts the arrival of the decimalcurrency system. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 But apart from that, the introduction of decimalcurrency seems to have ended any usefulness it might have had as a unit for pricing corn. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It seems that these owners and operators stand to gain precisely nothing out of the decimalcurrency change. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Neither did we think it necessary to have one on such a great political issue as decimalcurrency. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The result would be likely to be confusion and frustration and a bringing of discredit on to the new decimalcurrency system. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There will be a great slowing down while ordinary people are calculating new decimalcurrency coins in terms of half crowns, sixpences and threepenny bits. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 With decimalcurrency coming and then the £ and ounce, foot, yard and the mile gone almost overnight, there will be a great danger of confusion. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is true that the switch to decimalcurrency has always been said to be an expensive operation, but why make it gratuitously expensive? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Subsection (4)(c) is being brought into conformity with current practice in respect of decimalcurrency. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is the question of decimalcurrency and the metric system. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We shall either have to quote in dollars or go over to a proper decimalcurrency ourselves. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 A great deal is often said of the disturbance caused in the country by an alteration to the decimalcurrency. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I had proposed this evening to make a stout speech describing the undoubted advantages of a decimalcurrency system. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 At a time when we are going over to decimalcurrency we have wrongly adopted a module of four inches. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That is what matters—whether it is actually found to be a useful and convenient coin as a permanent feature of the decimalcurrency system. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Under the decimalcurrency, there is no such thing. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Since then, the sum has been converted to decimalcurrency, so the total cost is now 30p. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 For ease of comparison the 1970 prices have been converted to decimalcurrency. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I cannot imagine more of a nightmare than trying to talk about contributions to social security expressed in decimalcurrency. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 To include it in the new decimalcurrency would involve yet another half. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That means that if we were not to convert to decimalcurrency, we should be thinking about demonetising the ½ d. in about 1983. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The historic part of it was the decision to change to a decimalcurrency rather than the precise method and the date. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It would be much easier to work a percentage system on a decimalcurrency. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Another aspect of the problem is the coming of decimalcurrency. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In the case of decimalcurrency the impending changes have been known to local authorities and schools since 1967. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are quite modern because they are set out in decimalcurrency. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is very much like the operation that some of us attempted to perform when we converted to decimalcurrency. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The adoption of decimalcurrency would pose no serious problem for the operation of computers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 A large number of countries have decimalcurrency systems, but very few indeed have a coin worth 2½ times the minor unit. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The combination of decimalcurrency and metric quantities greatly simplifies price calculations. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 As one who has always advocated a decimalcurrency, this is rather a sad day for me. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I therefore welcome at least the decision to go over to decimalcurrency in 1971. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 To attempt now to change the statutory description "new penny" would involve considerable expenditure and disturb the public's growing familiarity with decimalcurrency. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Let us not have a period such as we had with the change to decimalcurrency. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not, therefore, want to say anything about what might be euphemistically called the democratic aspects of the decimalcurrency affair. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The financial factors operating when decimalcurrency finally comes into common use may be quite different from those of to-day. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There has never been any real objection to the idea of decimalcurrency. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Most of the countries of the world have a decimalcurrency system in which there is a major unit divided into 100 minor units. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The adoption of decimalcurrency will not facilitate our international trading and financial operations. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The pound/florin/mil is one of the two possible systems of decimalcurrency based on subdividing the pound. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The metric system, when it is conjoined with decimalcurrency, which we now have, is infinitely simpler on its own merits. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Is he able to say whether he himself is coming down in favour of the idea of decimalcurrency? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I find it difficult to know how two-ninths will be translated into decimalcurrency. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Therefore, if we were not thinking of converting to decimalcurrency, we would be considering demonetising the penny in about 120 years from now, or about 2087. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 This seems to be a very good argument for having a decimalcurrency as soon as possible, because we are dealing with 5·568 of a £. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 A decimalcurrency system has to be introduced on a fixed day, even though it must, for practical reasons, be followed by an interim period of dual currency working. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The changeover to decimalcurrency went smoothly. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 When we consider the upheaval which the country has experienced in changing to decimalcurrency and the large sums spent on converting cash registers, those arguments seem thin. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 As to the introduction of decimalcurrency generally, he has asked local authorities to play their part in seeing that an overall increase in prices does not result. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is almost in decimalcurrency terms. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That we got away with pound notes later on and that we are to have a decimalcurrency does not alter the fact that the sovereign was the currency. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The reason for doing so is obvious; for they, with the banks, transport and other service industries, have to take the lead in educating the public in handling decimalcurrency. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The argument is about whether this coin should continue in use after the end of the changeover period, when we are working entirely in decimalcurrency. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 What must a decimalcurrency be? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Take another one, decimalcurrency. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We cannot measure the cost of coal simply in terms of pounds, shillings and pence or of 0· 001d., whether in decimalcurrency or anything else. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Finally, the introduction of decimalcurrency which is now near enough actively to influence our social policies would be a very good moment to switch to a percentage system. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Schools have taught decimalcurrency for years. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In the change-giving process in the new decimalcurrency the 2½ new penny piece will not be a convenient piece to use and will not be used. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I have no doubt that when we have completed the changeover to a logical system, and we have both decimalcurrency and metric weights, price comparison will be considerably easier. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Does he not consider that the changeover to decimalcurrency is also a vast and important matter which will affect the shipping industry as well as every other industry? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There are bound to be problems, not least because a clean overnight switch to decimalcurrency working on the part of the entire country is impossible. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The conversion of prices to decimalcurrency means inevitably that there have to be a great many changes; some of these changes must be increases, but there should be decreases. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is one of the most substantial issues which have had to be considered in the whole business of going over to a decimalcurrency system. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Clause 8 increases the maximum permitted election expenses, and the sum allowed per elector is stated in terms which will be immediately convertible into decimalcurrency. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Being worth 1.2 pre-decimal pence, it enabled the prices of some low-value items to be more accurately translated to the new decimalcurrency. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Once a man gave them three bob (three shillings, i.e., 15p in decimalcurrency) and they all danced. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. In 1966 the same design was reissued in decimalcurrency and in 1978 a new set was issued. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. She is also responsible for the other aspects of the decimalcurrency such as lettering and decoration. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Introduction of decimalcurrency temporarily inserted new between the number and penny or pence: five new pence, etc. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The new reforms also called for a modern financial system with a central bank, treasury bonds and a decimalcurrency. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. It adopted its own decimalcurrency in 1863. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. This set continued in use until it was replaced by a new set in decimalcurrency in 1966. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Like their colourless counterparts, these were also reissued in decimalcurrency in 1966 when values from 10c to $1 were used. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. In the new, decimalcurrency, the peseta was worth 4 reales. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. He was also opposed to limited liability and the introduction of a decimalcurrency. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. In commemoration of the 40th anniversary of decimalcurrency, the 2006 mint proof and uncirculated sets included one- and two-cent coins. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. 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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