Sentences with phrase «mere pennies of»

I love that we can take a trip to the thrift store, and for mere pennies of his very own (usually 49 or 99 cents a piece - even less in summer yard sales or on Freecycle), a whole new world of music can be in his hands.

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Could you start earning nickels on your nest egg, instead of mere pennies?

Congress has failed to pass Child Nutrition Reauthorization that is now over a year past due and even if it had passed, would only have allocated 4 1/2 to 6 cents additional funds per student, so even for the mere pennies per lunch that we could have added to the current $ 2.72 that we spend on school meals, our elected officials couldn't come together for the health of our children.

We've hit one of the sweet spots in the year where retailers are practically shoving merchandise into our bags and asking for mere pennies in return.

That Penny (Keira Knightley) lunges for her prized vinyl record collection upon learning a rogue asteroid is destined to obliterate the Earth in just 21 days, is no mere coincidence, for Scafaria previously expressed her love of music as the writer of 2008's Nick and Nora's Infinite Playlist.

We paid for a game with ultimately unlimited replay value and our money is stretched to mere pennies per hour of entertainment the more we play it.

Many self - published authors want someone else to proofread their work for mere pennies, as if proofreading was akin to manual labor on the bottom of the pay scale.

We've been given to understand that the hardcover has an artificially inflated value (costing mere pennies per unit more to produce than the paperback), and that this artificial inflation is crucial to the success of the book.

If we build on the previous example and say that each share of the fund costs $ 5.50, then the shareholder can participate in ownership of 1,000 different securities for mere pennies compared to the commission cost that would be required to purchase even a single share of each of the stocks held by the fund, not even counting the cost of each share itself.

Although these fees translate to mere pennies, one can avoid paying them altogether by executing transactions as a limit (or stop) order at the bid / ask instead of as a market order request.

The only «benefit» I can see is for those within the department to demonstrate the worthiness of their continued funding at or around the current level, even though almost half that department could be removed with the stroke of a pen if a few eligibility rules for benefits were loosened for the few remaining veterans who have a few years only before meeting their maker - essentially bucket loads of money could be saved that are being expended employing teams of people for millions of dollars, to literally save mere thousands of dollars on veterans entitlements - «penny wise and pound foolish» = > it is actually quite bizarre, and I'm sure it is just one of the most blatant examples of the organised stupidity that is government today.

A hundred thousand dollars of liability insurance for the average American family costs mere pennies.

I was amazed at the simple beauty of the watercolor botanicals, and the fact that each page cost mere pennies when you divided the cost of the book by the number of beautiful pages.