1.   I got up and dropped some pennies on the floor when I put my pants on.

2.   It means about a penny on the price of a pint, five pence on a bottle of wine and about twenty eight pence on a bottle of spirits.

3.   You know about Liberal Democrat policy to put a penny on the income tax for education.

4.   -- two thirds of a penny on the rate.

5.   I suppose it must have been because a string of boyfriends seemed quite willing to spend their last penny on her before going off to the front.

6.   Another penny on the price will mean falling profits for the tobacco firms, not rising profits.

7.   As a result, one by one, the resorts and golf courses are being sold off for pennies on the dollar.

8.   At one table, a group of Latin American immigrants were betting pennies on a game of dominoes.

9.   Beaty and Wright were able to acquire the properties for pennies on the dollar because the mines were not profitable at prevailing silver prices.

10.   Bottom-fishing investors can now buy what were once well-regarded companies and financial assets for pennies on the dollar.