Sentence examples for shillings from inspiring English sources

The TUC had demanded five shillings (25p) a week for every man who reached 60 years of age.

Asquith's scheme offered a pension to 75-year-olds and excluded vagrants, criminals, certified lunatics and anyone with an income of more than 10 shillings a week.

Their earnings of between 30 shillings and £2 a week were almost certainly higher than their previous wages, but a substantial deduction was made for lodgings and meals.

But I have been told a hundred times how we climbed the steep slope to the Norman keep of Peveril Castle, marvelled at the stalactites that hung from the roof of Speedwell cavern (explored by boat on the subterranean lake) and - with the extravagance of desperation - paid two shillings and sixpence for scones and jam in one of the tea-rooms which still abound in Derbyshire's Peak District.

I thought they were over in the way pounds, shillings and pence are over and knowing friends' landline numbers off by heart is over.

The orphanage earns 45,000 Kenyan shillings a month from the biocentre, which they use to fund their work with the children.

A year's membership, a beautiful waitress proudly purrs, is "a million shillings"—about $10,000.

Rival warlords issued their own shillings for a while and there are a fair number of fakes in circulation.

Others accept the risk of holding a few fakes as a cost of doing business (shillings are often handed over in thick bundles of 100 notes).

Mr Ngewa charges 30 shillings for a meal.

Many deals are done in Somali shillings, a currency without a central bank to support it.