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Example sentences for "nine cents"

  • And why should it stop at exactly one dollar and twenty-nine cents?

  • I am not well acquainted with all the facts that enter into the question of value, but why should it stop at exactly one dollar and twenty-nine cents?

  • He makes over five cents profit on a pair when selling to the wholesale stores; and in retailing, nine cents a pair.

  • Formerly, rattan was thrown from the ships that landed in New York, as something useless; now it sells at from four to nine cents a pound.

  • I have seen the average price of weaving carpets stated at nine cents a yard.

  • It is divided into six marks, of nine cents each, and a mark into sixteen skillings, of about half a cent each.

  • The young officers left the car, and bought tickets at the gate, for which they paid one mark, or nine cents, each.

  • The Government says the difference was four thousand seven hundred and eighty-three dollars and ninety-nine cents, an absolutely fatal variance.

  • And yet the Government charges that we presented a false claim for four thousand seven hundred and eighty-three dollars and forty-nine cents.

  • It is charged that Peck and Dorsey presented a false account for the third quarter of 1879 for four thousand seven hundred and eighty-three dollars and ninety-nine cents.

  • It is evident that while the Portuguese sell their oranges here at a dollar apiece, the ninety-nine cents which go to pay the tax are taken from the American consumer.

  • Congress, yielding as usual to this argument, imposes a duty of ninety-nine cents on each foreign orange.

  • We have got just exactly eighty-three dollars and fifty-nine cents in the bank.

  • Eight or nine cents a bushel for the salt.

  • The import price of this kind, from the West Indies, is nine cents a bushel; from Portugal, eight cents a bushel.

  • The import price of this salt was from eight to nine cents a bushel of fifty-six pounds each, and the duty upon that bushel was twenty cents.

  • Gideon had seven dollars and fifty-nine cents, which he kept tucked away under the ticking of his bed and counted over every night.

  • Cameron's are selling canvas shoes today at forty-nine cents a pair.

  • When the hour arrived, the populace, I was secretly informed, with twenty-nine cents in one hand and their lives in the other crowded about the hotel and called loudly for admittance.

  • They paid the railroads nine cents apiece for transporting their clothes, including shoes and hats, from the point of manufacture to the Mississippi Valley.

  • Oranges from Florida to New York pay the railroads from four to nine cents a dozen, and those from California six to twelve cents a dozen, as they may be large or small.

  • A fifty-pound sack of flour from the mill, even at Minneapolis, in but a few cases has paid a freight rate of over eight or nine cents to the consumer.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    broken head; eight companies; human authority; human development; inorganic matter; kindly tone; many great; nine cases; nine children; nine different; nine dollars; nine eggs; nine fathoms; nine guns; nine hundred; nine inches; nine miles; nine pounds; nine tails; nine years; nineteen hundred; nineteen years; ninety feet; replied that; smoked salmon; under favour