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Example sentences for "twenty cents"

  • A good dish full will cost about twenty cents.

  • Therefore the proportionate cost for the ROAST VEAL will be twenty cents.

  • Price in the United States, Canada, and Mexico, twenty cents a number, one dollar a year, postage paid.

  • Twenty cents on a bushel saved will add at least four dollars to the yearly product of an acre of land.

  • We may conclude that the wheat of Minnesota can be carried fifteen or twenty cents a bushel cheaper by Duluth than by Lake Michigan,--a saving to the Eastern consumer of almost a dollar on each barrel of flour.

  • If you took a car ride and back, that would be twenty cents and a treat would be another ten cents.

  • Just think of it, Janet--twenty cents a week!

  • Twenty cents seemed a princely wage to one handicapped by the limitation of sex, and Rosie was determined to make good.

  • Was this comfortable income of twenty cents a week now, at the last moment, to be snatched from her?

  • I have estimated that some of these English visitors have been able to receive impressions at the rate of four to the second; in fact, they seem to get them every time they see twenty cents.

  • After which his statement that he carried away from the town a feeling of optimism explains itself: he had four cigars, the dinner, and half a page of impressions at twenty cents a word.

  • Duty on salt, at the same time, being raised to twenty cents a bushel.

  • In May it fell to twenty cents--a rate almost as low as prevails today with all modern improvements in methods of conducting the business.

  • Two-thirds of the cost of this, or twenty cents, would not cease as outgo, were this business abandoned.

  • The traffic moved through Danville on its way to Lynchburg, sixty-six miles beyond, at a rate of forty-three cents to Danville as compared with a rate of twenty cents to Lynchburg.

  • Now suppose a parallel road is built, and in order to secure some of this business offers to take it at twenty cents a ton.

  • Then he later gets a chance to buy more of the material at twenty cents, and it seems to be a good buy because everything points to the price going to thirty cents.

  • It needs no argument to demonstrate that, if you buy materials at ten cents a pound and the material goes later to twenty cents a pound you will have a distinct advantage over the man who is compelled to buy at twenty cents.

  • I cannot see how under such conditions the men could possibly be paid more than ten or twenty cents a day--for of course it is not the employer who pays wages.

  • Well, at twenty cents a pound, it would cost $25.

  • I've understood that one could get some of it from the air, and I would much rather get it that way than to buy it from the fertilizer agent at twenty cents a pound.

  • Neither I ain't needin' to pay out no twenty cents a week to find out neither.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    honest industry; inch and; our ancestors; party were; pretty thing; rolled oats; severe pain; sleep well; twenty acres; twenty dollars; twenty drops; twenty feet; twenty four; twenty francs; twenty grains; twenty guineas; twenty guns; twenty hours; twenty miles; twenty pounds; twenty thousand; twenty windows; twenty years; until now; whereupon they; wide field