Halfpenny Sentence Examples

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  • Before silver coinage was introduced (269 B.C.) the value of the as was about 6d., in the time of Cicero less than a halfpenny.

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  • When published for the first time, the eight page newspaper cost only halfpenny.

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  • Our coin shows a halfpenny which were only issued with the bare head design.

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  • In 1908 an Income Tax and a Land Tax Act was passed; the land tax being a halfpenny in the £ " on the aggregate unimproved value " - it brought in £30,000 in 1908-1909.

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  • This seminary was, however, closed in about six months, and on the 2nd of March 1736/7 both Johnson and Garrick left Lichfield for London - Johnson, as he afterwards said, " with twopence halfpenny in his pocket," and Garrick " with three-halfpence in his."

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  • But even fourteen halfpenny buns with A. P. on them in pink sugar do not of themselves make a very grand celebration.

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  • She did not know that he had only a halfpenny in his pockets out of the pension money.

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  • It took months, as we only got a halfpenny, sometimes a penny, a week.

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  • Playing method is either to toss the coins onto the board from an agreed distance or play it similar to shove halfpenny.

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  • They had been six weeks in New York, and neither of them had yet found a single job or earned a single halfpenny.

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  • The old halfpenny was demonetised on 1st August 1969.

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  • A tea shop menu lists tea at 3d per cup or 4d per pot (per person) with scones at a penny halfpenny.

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  • This picture shows a copper halfpenny of William III, struck about 1699.

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  • The value of a piastre is about two pence halfpenny.

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  • A halfpenny was expected from every one to whom these were exhibited, and bad luck was thought to menace the household not visited by the doll-bearers before Christmas Eve at the latest.

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  • I gave the prisoner twopence halfpenny, which I had lost.

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