Sentences with phrase «cost of a loaf of bread»

As an example of «better living,» Mauchly asserted that computers might one day serve to lower the cost of a loaf of bread.

The entrance fee had amounted to the cost of a loaf of bread, not a sum to be sneezed at in a country that was still impoverished by the...

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He is currently able to deduct the extra expense the family incurs in meeting their diets — deducting, for example, the premium that a loaf of gluten - free bread costs over an ordinary loaf of bread.

This time, suppose the widow, due to her failing eyesight, mistakenly gives the clerk nine pennies and one dime for the loaf of bread which costs only ten cents.

I suspect the author of Proverbs 6:26 did not have it quite right when he said that the price of a prostitute is only a loaf of bread, but as surely as a dalliance with a married woman will cost a man his very life, so also the pursuit of affirmation, recognition and acceptance through organized «Christianity» will cost a man all that he has.

It would be a nice looking loaf for my friend, since I bartered bread for a bunch of her old canvases from last semester (a total score for me, since a handbuilt stretcher costs about $ 15 of lumber from Lowe's).

/ slice — I bought everything to make a loaf of adventure bread and it cost over $ 30.

«It's not fair, she even has to eat stale bread because a fresh gluten free loaf costs # 3.50 for something half the size of a normal loaf.»

While there is a time cost (with hands - on prep averaging about half an hour or less), it's well worth it if you want to try your hand at creating a tastier loaf of bread from scratch, minus all those chemical additives and preservatives.

As the MPs» answers appeared to be getting worse, Creagh was hit with an old classic which has claimed many scalps over the years: how much does a loaf of bread cost?

Like a loaf of bread costing less than $.50.

You can think of the index mutual fund «broker penalty» this way: If a consumer spends $ 4 for a loaf of bread when an identical loaf on the same shelf cost $ 2, it is no defense for a «bread broker» who recommends the $ 4 loaf to argue that it cost more because the baker has higher production costs than the baker of the $ 2 loaf.

But listen to what money could buy in those days: A loaf of bread cost 5 cents; a «capricho» (sweet bun) cost 1 cent; a can of condensed milk 5 cents; a pound of rlce 2 cents; a pound of beans 3 cents; a pound of flour 3 cents; a «sarta» (string of fish) of seven 1 and a 1/2 pound snappers cost 8 to 10 cents; 12 salted (corned) mullets 15 cents.