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The squatters gained titles to 10-25 cents (1acre is equal to 100 cents) of land together with the hut.

Bones went for a quarter; slices of his heart and liver were cheaper at ten cents each.

The narrow accent range (361 cents) is within a standard deviation of the mean falling pitch change produced by 1;0-1; 2 children.

There is no authority to fix any wage above 40 cents an hour or to establish any workweek shorter than 40 hours.

When adjacent brands are compared, the price difference is only 5 cents.

The small denominations were still called pence and not cents as they did not represent decimal fractions.

Dollars, dimes, cents and milles were often recorded by separation with dots or lines.

They dropped to between 25 and 30 cents at the end of 1931 and were lowered to 20-25 cents in mid1932.

I'm not paying eighty-five cents for a stinking soda.

In 1882, as part of an overall revision, sugar tariffs were modified to a specific duty of five cents per kilogramme.

Actually, the tempered fifth and fourth (700 and 500 cents) do not differ that much from their pure analogs (702 and 498 cents, correspondingly).

The price discount for random-weight produce is particularly noticeable for strawberries (74 cents per pound), peppers ($1.18) and tomatoes ($1.01).

Respondents with postgraduate degrees were willing to pay a median of 56 cents less than respondents without schooling beyond high school.

Compared with the low-income group, those with annual household incomes above $75,000 would pay a median of 29 cents less.

Each dollar of capital gains will increase surplus assets somewhere between 20 cents and a dollar.

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