All this might have been saved, if she had hired a couple of women at sixty-two and a half cents a day for two or three days, and paid for having the carpets shaken; that's the way other people do.
Shall I take these strawberries for thirty-seven and a half cents?
Every half hour; and the fare is only twelve and a half cents.
She had started out in the morning with thirty boxes of strawberries, for which she was to pay seven and a half cents a box.
In New York, for a small new bone, two and a half cents is paid; for a large one, five cents.
Fair Haven some women are paid for opening oysters two and a half cents a quart.
He had sixty that he had bought at three and a half cents apiece, and was selling at four cents apiece.
Any one of several small German and Dutch coins, worth from about one and a half cents to about five cents.
The Turkish and Egyptian piasters are now worth about four and a half cents.
A Venetian coin, worth about three English farthings, or one and a half cents.
A New England name for the Spanish real, a coin formerly current in the United States, as valued at twelve and a half cents.
We recognized the smell and other characteristics of our Tzarskoe Selo "roast ox" at a glance and a sniff, and remained only long enough to learn that the best cuts cost two and a half cents a pound.
Barley sold at three and a half cents per pound; potatoes went up to twelve and a half cents; and flour reached fifteen dollars per barrel, at wholesale.
Defn: A Venetian coin, worth about three English farthings, or one and a half cents.
Defn: Any one of several small German and Dutch coins, worth from about one and a half cents to about five cents.
Occasionally, when the table there palled, he and the other boarders sought a change by repairing to a Sixpenny Dining Saloon in Beekman Street where a splendid feast was to be had for a shilling (twelve and a half cents).
In Chicago these latter were receiving, for the most part, eighteen and a half cents an hour, and the unions wished to make this the general wage for the next year.
The supposed value of the bit is twelve and a half cents, eight to the dollar.
If you have one, you lay it triumphantly down, and save two and a half cents.
Each of the other sort of carriages has a footman as well as a coachman, without additional price, although generous people give him a tip to the extent of a real (twelve and a half cents).
And this, you must remember, was from a woman whose support was cut off by the war and who was making a living by sewing shirts at twelve and a half cents a shirt.
Sam says that Pink sweat enough soap-grease to make him worth more than two and a half cents, if it could have been collected.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "half cents" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
