Sentence examples for shilling note from inspiring English sources

And console yourself that if you do get ripped off — which is almost inevitable — the people on the other side of that 500 shilling note probably need it more than you.

And I've been sighing ever since I began my 36 year teaching career in 1968 and discovered to my horror that my first year secondary pupils couldn't read 'The dog got wet and Tom had to rub him dry,' write a sentence or give change from a ten shilling note (yes, that's how long ago it was) for an item costing five shillings.

Underpaid civil servants remain aloof until they hear the crinkling of a 1,000 shilling note.

He'd ask me to work out the change from a 10 shilling note.

While an exchange will get you 50p for a 10 shilling note, they are selling on eBay for at least three times that amount.

The brown-coloured 10 shilling note was one of the early casualties of decimalisation, withdrawn in 1970 and replaced by the 50p coin.

But some Kenyans just aren't ready to give up on the country's shilling notes and coins.

Mr. Moi's face is on all the country's currency, from the coins that Nairobi's beggars collect to the shilling notes that buy less than ever.

Eban-Piero recalls a scene that plays like Fellini: the day Mr. Flavio walked down the beach, passing out 1,000 shilling notes to a squawking crowd of hundreds.

His name is on everything from roads to currency -- although Moi Avenue has big potholes just like all the other roadways, and the shilling notes that bear Mr. Moi's face are worth less than ever.

My mother's father, on the four or five times we would visit them a year, would thrust 10 shilling notes into the hands of me and my brother, which was a considerable amount of money.