The dye used in making the cheapest of Samar mats costs the weavers about 10 centavos while the more elaborate products need as much as 65 centavos worth of dye to color them.
In Tabaco, Albay, women cut the leaves and carry them in large bundles to the market, where they are sold at prices usually varying from 8 to 12 centavos per hundred.
In price they now vary from fortycentavos to thirty pesos, the ordinary ones bringing from P1.
The price is from 20 to 30 centavos per hundred, depending upon their size, softness, thickness, and imperfections.
These tikug vendors carry the bundles of green straw to the town, where they sell for from forty centavos to one peso per hundred bundles, depending upon the length of the straws.
A common mat containing 15 centavos worth of dyestuff sells for about a peso.
The selling price of the mat was one peso, the cost of the dye 15 centavos, which left the weaver a balance of 85 centavos for five days' labor.
The price is usually about 10 centavos per bundle.
In Cavinti, where the leaves are imported from Luisiana and Majayjay, the price of the best leaves is 50 centavos per hundred.
It is estimated that the weavers earn not more than 20 centavosper day at the industry.
Bottled beer from the Cerveceria Alemana at Arequipa here sold for fifty centavos (25 cents) a bottle and was drunk warm.
When one alights at the railroad station, it is better to take a launch to the city to the tune of sixty centavos (10 cents) than by the more arduous and long trip by cab over rough plank pavements.
There are milk depots stationed at various parts of the city and along the Avenida where a person may enter and for ten centavos (.
The waiters had evidently forgotten that they had sold me a couple of bottles of Guinness' stout the day previous at a reduction of forty centavos (17 c.
A letter to the United States from Lima requires twelve centavos postage and a postal card four centavos.
Could he have been induced to retain his paddy instead of selling it at 50 centavos per sack he would not have been obliged to repurchase at P5 per sack.
Thus, rice might be worth 13 centavos per kilogram in Butuán, while at the same time it might command a price of 43 centavos on the Híbung River or in Veruéla.
Moreover, the Manóbo sold a part of his rice in harvest time at 50 centavos a sack, and in time of scarcity repurchased it at as much as 5 pesos.
This she sold for twelve and a halfcentavos a vara, and with this money she bought more hemp.
So he took his twenty-five centavosand bought a half-cavan of rice which he carried on his shoulder to the mine.
Oh, here it is," said the man, and he took the twenty-five centavos out of his belt and handed it to her.
So he handed it to her, and she said, "Now you go to the field where the people are gathering hemp and buy twenty-five centavos worth for me, and I will weave it into cloth.
So Mahirap, with five centavos only, succeeded in making the wood-cutter rich.
The monkey was about to leave the room when the king perceived the three centavos sticking to the bottom of the measure.
Well, five centavos is all I'll ask you for it," said she.
In short, he served Emilio for four years, and at the end of that time he was given five hundred centavos as a payment for his services.
Our hero works four years for a cruel master, and receives five hundredcentavos as pay,--a sum with which he is more than satisfied.
They pay seventy-five for a kilo (two pounds) of salt or dried fish, when they could buy their own fish for twelve centavos a kilo and salt it themselves: or catch the fish themselves.
The electric tram service of the city is excellent, and for a few centavos you are transported miles into the many beautiful suburbs in which the capital rejoices.
Quite a big man, a Jefe, who also kept a shop in one town we visited, again and again tried to cheat us out of odd centavosover some trifling purchase.
And so you see the poor bewildered, stumbling Indian drunkard wasting his last few centavos on a dirty melting tallow dip which, with many genuflexions, he places before a plaster St. Andrew or St. Peter.
Yet when we offered a few centavos in return for our splendid drink, the Indian woman shook her head and would not take them.
Near the big towns, 75 centavos are paid, but practically, on many haciendas, it is so managed that the labour is paid for by his bare keep.
The Indian gets a wage of 50 centavos for cutting a thousand leaves, and if he is to earn this in a day he must work ten hours.
Three centavos is the price of an egg all the year through in Yucatan!
Year after year the Yucatecan is content to pay seventy-five centavos (eighteen pence) for a tin of American preserved fruit, when he could get the same from Cozumel for five.
In a rich quarter of the capital a wealthy family make a practice every dry season of selling water at ten centavos a pail!
An article served at twenty-five centavos to one diner will at the next table boom to fifty at the discretion of the subtle waiter.
But we must not forget that the duty, which was originally 7 centavos per litre (6.
The owner asked for the rent in advance, and for the amount of fifty centavos Mr. Hartman and I secured the right of occupancy, without time limit.
The woman states she could make about fifty jars per week, so that her actual wages were 50 centavos per week, or $.
Mupáak kug singkwinta stábus sa ímung isdà, Let me buy fifty centavos worth of the fish you have bought.
Spanish times originally worth a quarter of a peso, but ten centavos in the 1900’s.
Gái kug diyis, panubà ba, Let me have ten centavos to buy a glass of toddy.
Alkabaláhan kag bayinti, You will be charged twenty centavos for a place in the market.
The least charitable would be strongly tempted to succor any one of the throng individually, but here a hundred dollars in American money divided into Mexican centavos would hardly go round.
Then for twenty-four pesos and fifty centavos he had bought a cow, and the vaca before long gave them a fine calf and twelve cuartillos of milk a day.
The bill was finally set at twelve centavos (six cents), eight for supper, three for lodging, and one for breakfast.
Business incentavos is amazingly brisk; but so are the transactions in cigarettes, cigars, fruit, and morsels of food.
An elaborate dandy, dressed ostentatiously in the favourite black from head to foot, is extracting a few centavos from the pockets of his shining velvet waistcoat with which to endow a couple of dissolute-looking beggars who have drawn near.
And we've given them steady jobs and a hundred and fifty centavos a a day, and here they are yelling for our blood.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "centavos" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
