Sentence examples similar to princely 1 from inspiring English sources

In the end, after Murray's for sale sign had been up for three years above Ibrox, Craig Whyte stepped forth to buy the club off him for a princely £1.

By the late 1920s, his earnings from literary work amounted to £1,000 a year – a considerable sum in an era where TS Eliot's Criterion paid its contributors a princely £1 per 500 words.

Underlining the depth of the malaise, Lehman is hawking its French investment-banking unit for a princely €1 ($1.30).In this section Wall Street's annus horribilis A nudge in the wrong direction Save yourselves Locked away Ivory-towering infernos A stimulating question ReprintsMany of those left on Wall Street are underemployed.

His pessimism won him a princely £25.

The cappuccino was superb, at a princely £3 (then $6).

Passengers paid a princely £2 extra to check in a bag.

It houses three theatres and a princely 700-seat opera house (www.ort.ro), tickets for which cost a gloriously un-elitist £5, a steal even by Romanian standards.

As diners held their breath the two were locked in a bidding tussle until it was knocked down to Craig, at a princely £18,000.

katecarter - Talking of complaining about the Jabulani ball, the replicas on sale are being made by workers in Pakistan earning a princely £1.85 a day.

This six-CD set presents them (for a princely £110) complete and unmanicured, adding versions of celebrated songs such as Quinn the Eskimo and I Shall Be Released, though its 138 tracks are mostly country and folk staples.

Tim Martin, founder and non-executive chairman of the JD Wetherspoon pub chain, recalls that when he bought his first outlet back in 1979, a pint of Adnams bitter cost a princely 48p.