The government has put ten pence on the price of twenty cigarettes.(政府在每二十支香煙的價(jià)格上加征了十便士的稅款。)

The interim dividend payout was increased 6.7% to 6.4 pence a share.(中期派息上漲6.7%至每股6.4便士。)

The share price was chopped from 50 pence to 20 pence.(股價(jià)由每股50便士猛降至20便士。)

He stood at a whirring line all day, every day, making the same tiny mechanical motion with his wrist, for 20 pence an hour.(為了每小時(shí)掙20便士，他整天站在旋轉(zhuǎn)的生產(chǎn)線旁，用手肘做著同樣的微小機(jī)械動(dòng)作，天天如此。)

One day, his father gave him fifty pence.(一天，他父親給了他五十便士。)

ATTENDANT: Three pounds fifty pence, please.(服務(wù)員：請(qǐng)付3英鎊50便士。)

Barclays sank 2.4 percent to 296.9 pence.(英國(guó)巴克萊銀行股價(jià)下跌2.4%，至296.9便士。)

That will be 45 pence, please.(一共是45便士。)

Matches cost only a few pence.(火柴只需幾便士。)

To reduce pounds to pence you multiply by a hundred.(鎊乘以一百就折合成便士。)