Sentence examples for strings of copper from inspiring English sources
Only seven prefectures (including Yanjing) would be returned to the Song, and the Song would pay an annual indemnity of 300,000 packs of silk and 200,000 taels of silver to the Jin, as well as a one-time payment of one million strings of copper coins to compensate the Jurchens for the tax revenue they would have earned had they not returned the prefectures.
In the 1630s a string of one thousand copper coins equaled an ounce of silver; by 1640 that sum could fetch half an ounce; and, by 1643 only one-third of an ounce.
These regions, though densely populated, offer opportunities because they lack infrastructure, and satellite transmission may well prove cheaper than stringing millions of miles of copper wire or fiber.
Simple cellphones have penetrated much of Africa, reaching areas that never had landlines because of the expense of stringing wires and the widespread theft of copper used to make them.
Needing to finance its mining projects in the Democratic Republic of Congo -- a country which has some of the world's richest reserves of copper and cobalt -- Katanga's executives had sounded the alarm and made a string of calls for help.
A lack of copper causes nerve damage.
Chinese imports of copper were sharply down.
Big deposits of copper ore are rare.
Copper work, tools, implements, weapons, and artwork made of copper.
The Jackling house befit a copper king, with copper gutters, copper downspouts and a system of copper pipes behind the bougainvillea to warm them in cold weather.
