(1) The World Bank has revised down growth estimates, and the Kenyan shilling sank to a record low against the dollar in October, pushing food and fuel prices higher.
(2) A friend heard the butcher boast five shillings that he would be let off again by the tribunal, for the sixth time.
(3) A well-meaning litany of no-nos: don't be racist, don't be sexist, don't be homophobic, don't shill the World Cup to countries with human-rights issues .
(4) They charge fees of 3,000 Ugandan shillings – about US$2 – a term.
(5) A note on the text The first edition of Dracula appeared in bookshops on 26 May 1897, price six shillings, in a print run (from the publishers Archibald Constable and Co) of some 3,000 copies bound in plain yellow cloth with the one-word title in simple red lettering.
(6) One gloomy August afternoon Stevenson took Lloyd's shilling box of water-colours and made a map of an island.
(7) I'd go across the street with him and give him a 10-shilling note to get home because he never had any money, and that was it.'
(8) "Today I bought a goat, slaughtered, at 25,000 shillings (around £7)," she says, pausing in her shuttle between customers and pot.
(9) "The fossil fuel industry and its shills are willing to exploit any crisis and go to any lengths in their effort to extract more dirty fuels and dismantle critical climate policies.
(10) With significant donor support from Britain and others, the government has allocated more than 2tn shillings (£856,000) for education in 2010-11, about double its spending on health.
(11) They have only to make their papers good enough in order to win, as well as to merit, success, and the resources of a newspaper are not wholly measured in pounds, shillings, and pence.
(12) But the health centre hasn't the 200,000 shillings (£56) to pay for it.
(13) So why is my overriding desire for the next 12 months to see Morrissey and Marr (and the lawnmower parts ) to put creative differences and court cases behind them, take the shilling for a criminally vulgar reunion concert, and risk tainting my memories?
(14) "Some local staff working for NGOs and UN agencies ask for 3,000 shillings [around £20] to give you a food card.
(15) You then send between 100 shillings (74p) and 35,000 shillings (£259) via text message to the desired recipient - even someone on a different mobile network - who cashes it at an agent by entering a secret code and showing ID.
(16) Osteoarchaeologist Katie Tucker looked again at the bones in the museum when tests showed the team of local historians and residents, and experts from the university, that the bones from St Bartholomew, sold to a 19th-century vicar for 10 shillings as those of Alfred and his family, were centuries too late.
(17) The Uganda Red Cross will need to raise 2.5bn shillings (£640,000) for a three-month operation.
(18) And by doing so I've learned that Thiago Silva is not going to Barcelona because he has signed a new deal that will deliver a few extra PSG shillings into his pockets and keep him at the Parc des Princes until 2018.
(19) A young Treasury minister was once sent out to public meetings to explain currency metrication from the old 20 shillings and 12 pennies.
(20) In 1914 the Treasury printed and issued 10 shilling and £1 notes.
Sill
Definition:
(n.) The basis or foundation of a thing; especially, a horizontal piece, as a timber, which forms the lower member of a frame, or supports a structure; as, the sills of a house, of a bridge, of a loom, and the like.
(n.) The timber or stone at the foot of a door; the threshold.
(n.) The timber or stone on which a window frame stands; or, the lowest piece in a window frame.
(n.) The floor of a gallery or passage in a mine.
(n.) A piece of timber across the bottom of a canal lock for the gates to shut against.
(n.) The shaft or thill of a carriage.
(n.) A young herring.
Example Sentences:
(1) It's fairly cheap and easy to capture, too: best shot from a moving Peugeot 207, with the camera balanced on the sill of a half-opened side window.
(2) For example, nasal reconstruction may be secondary to repair of deformities of the sill, rim, limen nasi, septum, or nasal bones.
(3) Philtrum length, philtrum shape, philtrum depth, nasolabial triangular area, vermilion thickness, Cupid's bow peak, horizontal upper lip groove, vermilion border, alar size, depth of alar groove, nasal deviation, nostril shape, nasal tip, columella height, sill shape, columella width, and facial balance of the anterior, profile, and caudal views are used as aesthetic checkpoints for the results of a cleft lip operation.
(4) The lengthening and lowering of the short and sometimes retracted columella and narrowing of the alar bases is performed by making a columellar splitting incision and extending it along the alar sills.
(5) Accumulation of the bacterial plaque on materials used for cosmetic fillings was comparatively evaluated against that on the dental enamel of males and females aged 40-50 yr using the index of Löe & Sillness.
(6) Fewer short-term illnesses were reported by postpartum women than sill-pregnant women, suggesting the potential for recall bias or loss.
(7) Junior to and often feistier than the Metropolitan Opera, City Opera was a spawning ground for top opera talent that included Beverly Sills, Placido Domingo, Renee Fleming and Samuel Ramey.
(8) The change in (subischial leg length (SILL)--sitting height (SH)) standard deviation score (SDS) was used as an index of disproportionate segmental growth, which allowed the influence of growth hormone deficiency on growth to be discounted.
(9) The findings of this study with respect to retention of continuous and discrete psychomotor sills closely parallel findings of the three-month retention study.
(10) Significant increases were also observed in the height SDS for bone age (BA), sitting height (SH) SDS and subischial leg length (SILL) SDS.
(11) This reduction in spinal growth is reflected by a strongly positive disproportion score (DPS; [SILL SDS-S.HT SDS] + 2.81).
(12) Nasal floor excess is improved by an excision of the nasal sill.
(13) The limited effectiveness of esculin, a glycoside of 6,7-dihydroxycoumarin prompted research which led to the synthesis of other compounds of the same class, many of which have proved useful as whiteners; though the really broad developments of the 1940's stemmed from the synthesis of the 4,4'-diaminostilbene-2,2'disulfonic acid derivatives which are sill the most important groups of FWAs.
(14) Breakfast in bed, with juice congealing on the sill: pages and pages began to pour out again.
(15) If irradiated peripubertally, annual change in (SILL-SH) SDS to final height was +0.22 SD 0.23, not significantly different from the change over puberty in the prepubertal group.
(16) The lateral subunit is bordered by philtrum column, nostril sill, alar base, and nasolabial crease, while the medial topographic subunit is one-half the philtrum.
(17) This C-junction of the nostril sill allows an alignment of the nasal structure without a primary rhinoplasty.
(18) Either dry or humit warm-air inhalations with coniferous oil additives were prescribed depending on the type of sillness.
(19) The aspidistra of the book's title comes from the pot plants to be found on every window sill which, for Comstock, symbolise all that is wrong with the "mingy, lower-class decency" he is desperate to escape.
(20) The glacier has now become detached from a stabilising sill and is losing ice at a rate of 4.5bn tonnes a year.