pence
pence
Definition
pence (pens)
pence
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- donate: For every calendar sold Dragonswood will donate 20 pence to The Woodland Trust.
- earn: In addition some product opinions may earn 1 pence every time a member reads them.
- cost: Perhaps these products may cost a few pence more.
- pay: We had to pay 9 pence for the cheap seats.
Adjective modifier
- twenty-five: Swindon marked the landmark with the publication of a smashing little handbook, priced at just twenty-five pence!
- few: However, once the plate costs add just a few pence to each copy, the book has reached its minimum cost.
Modifies a noun
- coin: New Smaller Design In 1997, fifty pence coins were issued in a new, smaller size.
- sterling: Rates for pc users are shown in pounds and pence sterling per hour, and rates for Mac users are shown in US dollars.
- postage: Due to the checkout system, a charge of 42 pence postage will be made - hence the slightly strange prices!
- piece: We used twenty pounds of two pence pieces on a cloth on the table.
- worth: Well, that's my two pence worth chucked in!
Noun used with modifier
- twelve: This time the tax was twelve pence, three times higher than in 1377.
- eleven: A drink ( pint of beer ) at a pub cost eleven pence in money today.
Preposition: in
- pound: We were looking for him to find just two pence in every pound of tobacco duty for helping smokers to quit.
Preposition: per
- liter: Current prices start at from 94 pence per liter for unleaded gasoline.
- kwhr: This cost is also based upon electricity costing 10 pence per kWhr.
- kwh: The level of tax was set at 0.43 pence per kWh for electricity and 0.15 pence per kWh for gas for the commercial sector.
- share: A special dividend of 159 pence per share was paid in March 2005.
- minute: Prices are in pence per minute rounded up to the nearest penny.
- annum: The average of 7 years of parochial expenses is 136 pounds 8 shillings and 10 pence per annum.
pence Quotes
Take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themselves.
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