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It is unclear why a nine-pence increase in EDF's offer was enough to bring around Invesco, British Energy's largest institutional shareholder with a roughly 15% stake.
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I had sent to Aix for a coach and four horses, which I hired at the rate of eighteen French livres a day, being equal to fifteen shillings and nine-pence sterling.
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I think I can see the precise and distinguishing marks of national characters more in these nonsensical minutiae, than in the most important matters of state; where great men of all nations talk and stalk so much alike, that I would not give nine-pence to chuse amongst them.
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The sweet wine of St. Laurent, counted equal to that of Frontignan, costs about eight or nine-pence a quart: pretty good Malaga may be had for half the money.
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Mr. Langton having repeated the anecdote of Addison having distinguished between his powers in conversation and in writing, by saying ‘I have only nine-pence in my pocket; but I can draw for a thousand pounds;’ — JOHNSON.
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A package of twenty of the cheapest cigarettes today costs three shilling, sixpence, about fifty cents at present rate of exchange of which the government takes in taxes two shilling, nine-pence or about forty-two cents.
The British Election 1950
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When dried, cut it into pieces of the size of a nine-pence.
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When the coffee is put on the fire to boil, a piece of fish-skin or isinglass, of the size of a nine-pence, should be put in, or else the white and shell of half an egg, to a couple of quarts of coffee.
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A lop-eared rabbit, that is to say a proper one, cost two shillings; for nine-pence it was probable that you could only get a rabbit which would lop with one ear.
Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, November 11, 1914 Various
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Roots cost about nine-pence or one shilling per dozen.
Little Folks (December 1884) A Magazine for the Young Various
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