(n.) An English silver coin of the value of six pennies; half a shilling, or about twelve cents.
Example Sentences:
(1) But if books are sixpence each you are not going to buy 10 of them, because you don’t want as many as 10.” Natalie Haynes is author of The Amber Fury
(2) Current trails include Birmingham’s anti-slavery landmarks, a tour of city life living on sixpence a day during the 18th and 19th centuries, and a more contemporary side of Birmingham following sculptures around the city.
(3) From 1901 the Antrobus family, who owned the site, charged sixpence admission.
(4) We crept out of a back door and went to a club where a girl was dancing in a bird cage, and sitting on a mezzanine above us we saw Lionel Jeffries and the producer Robert Lynn dropping sixpences on her head.
(5) "I believe that a good penny and sixpence store, run by a live Yankee, would be a sensation here," he wrote in his diary.
(6) You reel back at Cohn’s words, and wonder why anyone would even bother listening to Tex’s records, but then he turns on a sixpence and reels you in with a couple of lines: “He’s funny, he really is, and he obviously enjoys himself.
(7) Cisse turns on a sixpence on the edge of the area, working himself space for a shot.
(8) YES: Jay Rayner, Observer restaurant critic In the old days, the only way to make money out of a Christmas pudding was by getting lucky and almost choking on the foil-wrapped sixpence that your mother had secreted there.
(9) But the full quote from Orwell runs: "The Penguin books are splendid value for sixpence, so splendid that if other publishers had any sense they would combine against them and suppress them."
(10) Makeshift centre-forward Gerard Pique shows the Big Game Bottler Other Big Game Bottlers doff their hats to how it's done by picking up a defence-splitting through-ball from Xavi, drawing Julio Cesar towards him, turning on a sixpence and slotting the ball into an empty goal from 12 yards.
(11) Jack Straw , a former Labour foreign secretary, said: "When things are relatively calm, suspicions, fantasies and sometimes paranoia can take off about the so-called secret state but the moment there is a serious threat of an outrage the very same people and newspapers turn on a sixpence and they demand [to know why] there has been a failure by the intelligence agencies."
(12) What a brilliant finish from Cousin, who takes up the ball in the box with his back to goal, turns 180 degrees on a sixpence to confuse Anderson beyond all reason, and wheechs a thunderous shot past Vercoutre.
(13) Bearing that in mind, Heston has stuffed the tangerine (well, orange) inside your Christmas pud, inviting you to play hunt the orange, not the sixpence.
(14) Helpfully, Amazon explains: “Yes, George Orwell was suggesting collusion.” And that’s true – so long as you come in halfway through his sentence which reads, in its entirety: “The Penguin books are splendid value for sixpence, so splendid that if other publishers had any sense they would combine against them and suppress them.” It’s a compliment, not a manifesto.
(15) It was never in George Orwell’s interest to suppress paperback books — he was wrong about that.” Well, he would have been, if the full quote – about publisher Penguin’s introduction of paperback books – hadn’t been this: “The Penguin Books are splendid value for sixpence, so splendid that if other publishers had any sense they would combine against them and suppress them.” Several sites have already called Amazon out on its partial quote – notably TechCrunch , which described the decision as “horrible” while noting that “it’s clear that Orwell is praising the paperback, not arguing for its abolition”.
(16) Did my father give the local farmer sixpence to allow us entry?
(17) Bruce Ross-Smith Oxford • In Richard Hoggart's obituary, you recall that he wrote of seeing his widowed mother "standing frozen, while tears start slowly down her cheeks because a sixpence has been lost … you do not easily forget".
(18) In Micawber's example, the deficit is sixpence; in the case of the UK, it is £159.2bn – but the principle is the same.
(19) Even I don't sentimentalise them, and I sentimentalise everything , from crap 80s Chevy Chase comedies I saw as a kid to crap 1990s film soundtracks I liked as a teenager (Lisa Loeb, Sixpence None the Richer, the Cardigans – you are not forgotten ).
(20) Except that Gowing strongly recommended a new patent stylographic pen, which cost me nine and sixpence, and which was simply nine and sixpence thrown in the mud."
Value
Definition:
(n.) The property or aggregate properties of a thing by which it is rendered useful or desirable, or the degree of such property or sum of properties; worth; excellence; utility; importance.
(n.) Worth estimated by any standard of purchasing power, especially by the market price, or the amount of money agreed upon as an equivalent to the utility and cost of anything.
(n.) Precise signification; import; as, the value of a word; the value of a legal instrument
(n.) Esteem; regard.
(n.) The relative length or duration of a tone or note, answering to quantity in prosody; thus, a quarter note [/] has the value of two eighth notes [/].
(n.) In an artistical composition, the character of any one part in its relation to other parts and to the whole; -- often used in the plural; as, the values are well given, or well maintained.
(n.) Valor.
(v. t.) To estimate the value, or worth, of; to rate at a certain price; to appraise; to reckon with respect to number, power, importance, etc.
(v. t.) To rate highly; to have in high esteem; to hold in respect and estimation; to appreciate; to prize; as, to value one for his works or his virtues.
(v. t.) To raise to estimation; to cause to have value, either real or apparent; to enhance in value.
(v. t.) To be worth; to be equal to in value.
Example Sentences:
(1) Furthermore, it had early diagnostic (seven days) as well as prognostic value, as revealed by response to therapy and decrease in COA titer.
(2) Steady-state values of cell, glucose, and cellulase concentration oxygen tension, and outlet gas oxygen partial pressure were recorded.
(3) Although the mean values for all hemodynamic variables between the two placebo periods were minimally changed, the differences in individual patients were striking.
(4) The findings indicate that there is still a significant incongruence between the value structure of most family practice units and that of their institutions but that many family practice units are beginning to achieve parity of promotion and tenure with other departments in their institutions.
(5) The angiographic appearances are highly characteristic and equal in value to a histological diagnosis.
(6) Since MIRD Committee has not published "S" values for Tl-200 and Tl-202, these have been calculated by a computer code and are reported.
(7) It was found that linear extrapolations of log k' versus ET(30) plots to the polarity of unmodified aqueous mobile phase gave a more reliable value of log k'w than linear regressions of log k' versus volume percent.
(8) Virtually every developed country has some form of property tax, so the idea that valuing residential property is uniquely difficult, or that it would be widely evaded, is nonsense.
(9) The goals in control patients were to attain normal values for all hemodynamic measurements.
(10) gamma-Aminobutyric acid (GABA) and glutamate release from the treated side was higher than the control value during the first 2-3 h, a result indicating an important role of glial cells in the inactivation of released transmitter.
(11) The statistical T value calculated for the LP-TAE group showed that the administration of LP, the tumor size, intrahepatic metastasis, portal vein infiltration, and serum total bilirubin and alpha-fetoprotein levels significantly (P < 0.01) affected the patients' survival.
(12) Among the groups investigated, the subjects with gastric tumors presented the greatest values.
(13) By 24 hr, rough endoplasmic reticulum in thecal cells increased from 4.2 to 7% of cell volume, while the amount in granulosa cells increased from less than 3.5% to more than 10%; the quantity remained relatively constant in the theca but declined to prestimulation values in the granulosa layer.
(14) Needle acupuncture did, however, increase the pain threshold compared with the initial value (alpha = 0.1%).
(15) When the data correlating DHT with protein synthesis using both labelling techniques were combined, the curves were parallel and a strong correlation was noted between DHT and protein synthesis over a wide range of values (P less than 0.001).
(16) Schneiderlin, valued at an improbable £27m, and the currently injured Jay Rodriguez are wanted by their former manager Mauricio Pochettino at Spurs, but the chairman Ralph Krueger has apparently called a halt to any more outgoings, saying: “They are part of the core that we have decided to keep at Southampton.” He added: “Jay Rodriguez and Morgan Schneiderlin are not for sale and they will be a part of our club as we enter the new season.” The new manager Ronald Koeman has begun rebuilding by bringing in Dusan Tadic and Graziano Pellè from the Dutch league and Krueger said: “We will have players coming in, we will make transfers to strengthen the squad.
(17) Minimal levels were evident 16 weeks after irradiation; Hct then increased, but remained below preirradiation values.
(18) The norepinephrine values remained constant on the three days.
(19) The mean and median values in the nondiabetic group are higher than in previously published reports.
(20) However, this predictive value disappeared when five baseline parameters found to predict the outcome (neopterin, beta 2-microglobulin, p24 antigen, anti-p18 antibody and immunoglobulin A) were adjusted.