The plural appears to be used here, as not uncommonly, of a single letter.
We have here as nice a balance between conflicting readings (differing only by a single letter) as we find anywhere in the N.
Thus the very versions are divided in a case where the omission of a single letter produces so great a change in the sense.
We have here a various reading, consisting of the prefix of a single letter, which seems to introduce into a simple verse what is little short of an absurdity.
The rates now became, for a single letter, for conveyance for any distance not exceeding 60 miles, 4d.
The rate for a single letter, which had been raised by Prideaux to 6d.
Packets were charged by the ounce, and the rate per ounce was four times that for a single letter.
The first rates of postage for the new service were fixed at twopence, for a single letter, for any distance under 80 miles; 4d.
Can ye produce a single letter to match these verses?
Were ye to assemble together in order to produce the like of a single letter of My Works, ye would never be able to do so,(32) and verily God is cognizant of all things.
By the righteousness of God, We speak not according to selfish desire, nor hath a single letter of this Book been revealed save by the leave of God, the Sovereign Truth.
If he had never set eyes upon the book before it was published, curiosity would still have prompted him to turn over the leaves, and he must immediately have discovered that it did not contain a single letter from a peer.
In no instance does it require more than four deflections to indicate a single letter, yet the transmission with the double needle is found so much quicker that the single needle instrument is only rarely used.
Only so much of this disc was exposed to view as to show a single letter at a time, through a small aperture, as the seconds wheel revolved.
By a single letter, according to its position, they contrive to express all that with civilised nations in our upper world it takes the waste, sometimes of syllables, sometimes of sentences, to express.
Some of the most amusing blunders occur by the change of a single letter.
Whatever the postage of a single letter might be, the postage on a double letter was equal to that of two such single letters; and that on a treble letter was three times that on a single letter.
The rates of postage were to be threepence a single letter within an eighty mile radius; fourpence-half penny for single letters outside the eighty mile radius; and eighteen pence for each ounce weight.
A glance at the tariff showed that the charge made by the post office on a letter from England was one shilling for a single letter.
A packet was despatched to Lerwick on the first Wednesday of each month, and returned about the 8th or 10th of the intervening month; the Postage upon a single letter to Lerwick was 6d.
A single letter of Shelley's brought £46, and six letters of Byron to Trelawny £70.
A single letter, blown accidentally from one of the carts used by the contractors who carried out this work of desolation, turned out to have been written in the reign of James I.
This figure is, I believe, the highest ever given in Paris for a single letter.
Bullinger, and as yet only a single letter of Tyndall has ever come to light.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "single letter" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
