Sentence examples for a share or two from inspiring English sources

If it goes down by a penny, you would lose 2p a share – or two times your stake.

You can tell by the cut of their Wellington boots that the average punter at Hay has a share or two.

Most of the other investors, whose shares were included in the purchase price, are fans who own a share or two that they may put on their wall for sentimental reasons.

I'm guessing that most shareholders realize that losing a penny a share or two in earnings is less expensive than the cost to them in taxes to cover the cost of more people joining the ranks of the unemployed.

But to understand why Bove's take might make sense, consider this fact: you could, at this moment, buy all of Citigroup — the entire company — for around four dollars a share, or twenty-two billion dollars.

Bear Stearns, very strong in securities processing and trading but weak in asset management and stock underwriting, has said it will consider selling at $120 a share, or four times book value, a rich price indeed.

For example, Roger G. Ackerman, the former chairman of Corning, sold $14 million of the company's stock last year, mostly when it was trading at about $57 a share, or seven times its current price.

McGowan rates the stock a buy, with a 12-month price target of $16 a share or twenty times his 2000 earnings estimates.

Havas made the offer, for 541 pence a share or £425 million ($607.3 million), on Thursday and bought the 3.6percentt stake, amounting to 2.7 million shares, at 541 pence a share on Friday.

Winspear directors endorsed the sweetened De Beers offer of 5 Canadian dollars a share, or 305 million Canadian dollars ($205 million).

Kohlberg's bid values PagesJaunes at 22 euros ($27.90) a share, or 3.3 billion euros ($4.18 billion), for the 54percentt stake, France Télécom said.