Example sentences of "cents a day " in BNC.
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| 1 | As one pro-contra advertisement put it , appealing for 53 cents a day to support a mercenary called ‘ Charley ’ and his machine-gun , ‘ There is no ‘ country ’ called Nicaragua , only a nation of people living under a totalitarian regime . ’ |
| 2 | However , prisoners remain heavily dependent on what visitors bring in for them , as the prison budget allows about US 10 cents a day per person . |
| 3 | They said we 'd receive eighty cents a day for six hours work and promised us good food , good houses to live in . |
| 4 | Oh , and plantation workers sometimes earn as little as 25 cents a day … |
| 5 | The reason : The provincial government paid Mount Providence , operated by Roman Catholic nuns , 75 Canadian cents a day each for the care of orphans — for mentally retarded children it paid 2.75 dollars . |
| 6 | The planners cheerfully calculate that this works out at only 60 cents a day per person — and that this cost will be offset by people having to spend less on doctors and medicines . |