Sentences with phrase «penny piece»

The phrase "penny piece" refers to a small coin that is worth one cent. It can be used to describe any coin that is the equivalent of one penny. Full definition
So she'd sold her corn, but it didn't earn her much, just pennies a piece.
Taking the game around the Desert track delivers a massive nostalgic kick that will go straight to the core of anybody who remembers feeding arcade machines an entire tube of fifty pence pieces back in the day.
Newcastle - born, London - based artist Michael Dean, 38, has deposited millions of penny pieces in his room.
The White Purse contains uniquely minted Maundy money - one, two, three and four silver penny pieces - to the value of 92p.
Even after a week I felt I was cutting a fifty - pence piece shaped cornering line.
When pioneering fighting games like Street Fighter and Tekken first showed up in western arcades all those years ago, each cabinet earned more than its weight in 20 pence pieces thanks to the solidity of their fighting mechanics.
The fourth shortlisted artist was Michael Dean, whose most striking installation was a giant heap or island of penny pieces which explored how difficult it is for families to get by in Britain today.
Here is how you can get started crafting your own Valentine's Day napkin rings for just pennies a piece!
Visitors to this year's Turner prize exhibition will be able to admire a 16ft polystyrene backside and contemplate poverty as they walk round a vast pile of penny pieces, but they will not be able to ride a model train.
IF Edinburgh wants to do it, then fine, but then it should not expect to get a penny piece from the State.
Bob Rotzoll, senior design engineer at Organic ID Inc. in Colorado Springs, Colorado, predicts that the chips could eventually be made for about a penny a piece.
I have never received a penny piece for any of my work on GM from any commercial company.»
a penny a piece!
Dial back the pace and instead of stabbing in oversteer corrections you find yourself struggling to just steer a smooth arc around any given corner — turning each instead into a giant 50 pence piece.
There's almost no reason you wouldn't choose to do so, since the miles convert at a penny a piece meaning you get a little more than 2 % back on all your spending.
If you can earn Chase Ultimate Rewards for a penny a piece or less that's a 33 % discount on Park tickets.
And you've even got to be clever to get a penny a piece cashback for them.
As is typical of rewards programs, most redemptions are worth a penny a piece.
This means that each mile is valued at a penny a piece, and the signup offer provides you with $ 500 of travel credits immediately.
They're relatively easy to earn through credit card signups and spend, they've got upside in redemption with easy to use travel partners (United, Hyatt), they've got every day value (Southwest), and they're easy to cash out at a penny a piece.
There's almost no reason you wouldn't choose to do so, since the miles convert at a penny a piece meaning you get a little more than 2 % back on all your spending.
You spend so much time jumping and gliding that you may not really disturb the sand in this box, but if you did it you'd probably find live ants and the occassional lost 20 pence piece.
In fact, anyone railing against the violence found in current videogames should be given a 50 pence piece and pointed in the direction of this arcade machine, which saw a pair of masked mercenaries solve the drug and crime problems of an entire city with machine guns and rocket launchers.
So the next morning there would be a thru» penny piece or a tanner, if we were lucky.
Unlike the Nike FuelBand or the Jawbone Up, Shine is a small metal - clad circular pebble the size of a 10 - pence piece or, for our American friends, a quarter.
This is a coin that was trading for no more than a penny a piece back in the middle of the year.
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