英语词汇“fiver”造句子简单的方法、技巧、例句及翻译-英语例句辞典

Two of the men still squatted near the Primus stoves, serving corn mush and fiver. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dragon hide, blood, heart, fiver and horn all have highly magical properties, but dragon eggs are defined as Class A Non-Tradeable Goods. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The notes weren't fivers, nor tenners; they were all twenty-pound notes. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

From the corners of my eyes I saw Mpandhlani give the piece of fiver to a five-year-old boy. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Back went the fiver and out came a tenner! Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Box: What to do with that fiver what you stole.You and Yours: F*** 'em. A cool Radio 4? What a turn-off 2011-02-13T00:06:03Z

You can enter a bird for under a fiver, but it must be a Racing Homer, so don't bother going to your local park with some birdseed and a net. This week's new events 2011-01-22T00:06:59Z

Now the Pub Landlord is hosting a pub quiz, at lunchtime, for just a fiver. Al Murray 2010-08-22T14:57:00Z

"It's a football club," he clarified, "It's been taken over – some bloke walking past with a fiver." A week listening to ? Key 103 and BBC Radio Manchester 2011-07-13T13:53:37Z

Don't know who these Bootleg Beatles are but they've got some good tunes A fiver says they are described as "a band that needs no introduction" before a lengthy introduction. The Rolling Stones and all tonight's bands – live! 2013-06-30T00:31:00Z

They live round the side of Teviot Square and I can particularly recommend Red Box – a lovely box of noodles, with real fresh vegetables, and all for a fiver. An Edinburgh comedy judge's diary: good old-fashioned standup 2010-08-16T09:58:00Z

And Don Pedro is flooding the UK with fake Nazi fivers hidden inside one of Rodin's Thinker statues. Best Kept Secret by Jeffrey Archer – digested read 2013-03-01T19:30:01Z

The Stones split the 30-guinea performance fee six ways, which somehow meant that Jones got £6 and 10 shillings, everyone else got a fiver. Start it up: the 50th anniversary of the Rolling Stones' first gig 2012-07-09T18:01:01Z

But the same high fivers chatter away frustratingly during new songs from her excellent forthcoming album Havoc and Bright Lights. Alanis Morissette – review 2012-06-28T17:09:37Z

“The grannies come by and put a fiver on their favorite rose.” Who’s Irish Now? 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z

At New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art there is a $20 entrance fee, so why not a fiver for London's great galleries? Labour MP Tristram Hunt calls for national collections to charge entry fees 2011-03-06T00:15:12Z

So to be able to watch every season of a show – and every season of hundreds of others of shows – for a fiver a month was revolutionary. Streaming TV is about to get very expensive – here's why 2019-06-27T04:00:00Z

For this one, donations start at a fiver. A new chapter for philanthropy? 2011-01-26T11:42:00Z

Not good money, mind you, not real money, certainly not more than a fiver. How to make Mega Piranha camper than Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus? Just add Tiffany 2010-07-09T23:06:00Z

On a visit to a Comic Relief-assisted school in the Ghanaian capital, Accra, I saw for myself exactly what those pounds and fivers donated over the years translate into on the ground. Why Comic Relief is still a cunning plan 2013-02-04T22:46:53Z

And who can argue at a fiver a pop? Cine-files: PeckhamPlex, London 2013-06-11T16:21:57Z

She apparently said: “When you first moved to London, I didn’t send you a fiver every other week. It was a tenner.” Christopher Eccleston: ‘I really felt that I was going to die’ 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z

The Complete Studio Recordings retails for £50: a fiver per CD. Roxy Music: The Complete Studio Recordings 1972-1982 – review 2012-08-02T14:30:02Z

Kevin Bridges Photograph: Andy Hollingworth ON THE UP Forgery The guerrilla marketing prize goes to the Five Pound Fringe, for printing flyers that look like real fivers, especially when left on the pavement. The G2 Edinburgh festival Clap-o-meter: reading two 2010-08-11T13:31:00Z

Unfortunately for them, all they'll be able to buy now is some novelty mustard for a fiver and an assortment of peg bags, but there's always Tesco. TV review: Town With Nicholas Crane; The Rattigan Enigma 2011-07-28T21:04:00Z

“I’ve been sworn to secrecy,” brags one character, quite early in the novel, when pressed about the fiver in his pocket. The Rebel, the Policeman and a Chase Through Britain and Beyond 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z

We didn't want to just give someone a fiver and take a photo, so we spent a while going up and down, looking at who was there. Dinner, dusk and dancing Russians: my best winter shot 2012-12-16T17:59:01Z

If you sign up to mystery-shoppers.co.uk you will receive an assignment and could find yourself reviewing a fine dining restaurant with up to £75 to spend – or a local cafe with a fiver. How to have fun for free 2010-10-21T07:00:00Z

However, she had suggested her daughter try "offering a fiver for it... which she would not do as it was a charity shop". Ming vase used as £8.50 doorstop in Essex sells for £3,400 2023-07-13T04:00:00Z

He continued: "I'd go into the shop and buy about 10 cans and it would only be a fiver. It was about 90 pence for those cans I'm drinking and now they are £2." Call to raise 'life-saving' minimum alcohol price in Scotland 2023-06-27T04:00:00Z

If you were given a fiver every time a government minister parroted the slogan that promises to end migrant channel crossings you would be pretty flush by now. 'We can't be honest,' former home secretaries tell Kuenssberg on immigration 2023-06-03T04:00:00Z

I colour it myself and spend a fiver every couple of months. Money Diary: 'When the kids are off you end up spending more' 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z

Dropped quarters in the couch cushions or a faded fiver plucked from the laundry basket were thrilling and entirely plausible prizes. When the lemonade stand accepts Venmo: What does money mean to kids? 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z

We were not even asking for pounds or fivers but just pennies. NI facing into a 'homelessness disaster' this Christmas 2022-12-17T05:00:00Z

He added: "I have never even washed a fiver under a bar of soap". Socialite James Stunt told assistant 'please forge my signature' 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z

For many households, a fiver is a meal rather than a ride. Hull Fair: Ride owners on rollercoaster of rising costs 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z

"I've had my drier on once this month and you can just see the money going down. I used to top up about a fiver a day, if that. Now it's so much more." Three million households waiting for £150 energy rebate 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z

Paul Whitehead, who runs the Castle Café in the resort, said they were cooking up a plan to "try and feed people for a fiver". Cost of living: Withernsea residents penniless and 'struggling to live' 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z

The polymer fiver featuring Winston Churchill launched in 2016, and the plastic £10 note including the portrait of Jane Austen was first issued in 2017. Just 100 days left to spend paper £20 and £50 notes 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z

Indeed, there is a desire to allow manufacturers to produce equipment that would make it even easier to play for those who compete in mere monthly medals or for a friendly fiver. Pro golfers face equipment rule change 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z

A weekly shop costs a fiver but its 132 members get around four times that price in food. Cost of living: 'I only put heating on when my grandkids visit' 2022-01-15T05:00:00Z

My former Boston Globe colleague Marie Franklin helped spark this effort; she has blogged about how she saved over $40,000 in less than 15 years just by not spending fivers. Upsize the impact of your pocket change 2022-01-08T05:00:00Z

The loss represented by the odd pocketed fiver is mainly one of trust. I’m Pro-Choice. Can I Donate to Anti-Abortion Pregnancy Clinics? 2021-05-04T04:00:00Z

You work on the assumption that you'll be paying less than a fiver for them after a month when they're not so new and exciting anymore. GameStop: What is it and why is it trending? 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z

Their fiver was known as a Gary, after Gary Nash of the Eat or Heat food bank. Big bang theory: how blowing up a Transit van wiped out £1m of debt 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z

More than £24.5 billion in old fivers, tenners and twenty pound paper notes are still in circulation. £24.5 billion of paper banknotes never cashed in 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z

If I put the fiver in my wallet — rather than the savings jar — I’d still be saving $1.88, an exponentially smaller amount. Upsize the impact of your pocket change 2022-01-08T05:00:00Z

She tells me how he loved watching YouTube videos about history and how he had this certain way of saying "Mummy" which meant he wanted a fiver from her. Christopher Kapessa: A mum’s fight for justice 2020-07-12T04:00:00Z

Best-selling children's author Walliams put a voice to a fiver for The Diary of a £5 Note, which was crowned gold winner in the 10 to 13 age category. Dua Lipa reads story for last 500 Words final 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z

It calculates drivers are being overcharged by more than a fiver a tank. NHS staff being 'ripped off for petrol' 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z

He hasn't even taken his ukulele out of its bag when an elderly woman stops, chats for a moment and presses a folded up fiver into his hand. 'Why I don’t want to live in a house' 2020-02-23T05:00:00Z

The new £20 is the third plastic banknote to be issued in the UK after the fiver featuring Winston Churchill - launched in 2016 - and the tenner featuring Jane Austen, which was first issued in 2017. New £20 featuring painter Turner enters circulation 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z

You don’t want your stepchild to demand a fiver every time he empties the dishwasher there. The secret to being a good stepmother? Here’s my handy guide … | Tiff Stevenson 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z

Both the fiver and the £50 are hoarded, but by whom, and why has the Bank of England just announced plans to give the latter a makeover? When most people never see a £50 note, why have it? 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z

For a while people would come up to me in Swindon and say they’d seen me on TV, and a few people got in touch online cheekily asking for a fiver or a tenner. Pennies from heaven: what’s it like to suddenly become rich? 2019-05-19T04:00:00Z

People were sending in their fivers and tenners. Four men with a ladder: the billboard campaigners battling Brexit 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z

It manufactures the new polymer Bank of England fivers and tenners. Why countries print money outside their borders 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z

So until someone finds a Harry Kane fiver and tries to sell it at auction, the answer of whether it truly is worth £50k remains a mystery. Can a fiver really be worth £50k? 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z

Seeing his skin drop off in flakes and handing over a fiver to sustain him were actions that called for description, not explanation. Flannery O’Connor’s Revelatory Honesty 2001-01-22T05:00:00Z

Currently in a place called Star Wars Hostel for a fiver a night, no return flight home and just secured an England V Croatia ticket. The mad dash to Moscow 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z

For 31 other employees, a complete waste of a fiver. World Cup 2018: day five updates as England begin their campaign – live! 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z

Swansea, to provide a bit of context, were playing in the last eight of the FA Cup for the first time since 1964 and children’s tickets were a fiver. FA Cup and Premier League: talking points from the weekend 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z

One of those fivers raised £6,000 at auction for Children in Need which is a great deal more than the £5 face value but still £44,000 less than £50k. Can a fiver really be worth £50k? 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z

They say the copper is important, and it is unlikely they would want to dunk a fiver in the vase - even though the new polymer banknotes are waterproof. Penny pitching: Your eight uses for copper coins 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z

The previous one was the £5 note featuring reformer Elizabeth Fry, which was replaced by a Winston Churchill fiver - a decision that led to a campaign to redress the lack of balance. Old £10 notes out, new 10p coins in 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z

The Americans had — count ’em up — one, two, three, four . . . five stones — a fiver that turned a tie game into a 10-5 U.S. advantage, a blowout. Perspective | John Shuster was leveled by the sport he loved. Then he got back up, and won gold. 2018-02-24T05:00:00Z

The fivers featured art by specialist micro-engraver Graham Short, whose previous work, a portrait of the Queen on a pinhead, sold for £100,000. What happened to the fivers 'worth £50,000'? 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z

So what is the reality of making a small fortune from a fiver? Can a fiver really be worth £50k? 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z

The Bank said polymer, also used with the new fiver, was more durable and cleaner than paper notes. Jane Austen £10 note enters circulation 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z

This is so clearly a David and Goliath situation: an intensely rich global company on one side with some teenagers earning less than a fiver an hour on the other. All power to the McDonald’s strikers. Young people can’t live like this | Suzanne Moore 2017-09-04T04:00:00Z

It also makes the best budget glitter in the business and flogs it for less than a fiver. Sali Hughes: the 50 best ethical beauty buys 2017-07-15T04:00:00Z

The Scottish fiver was found in a card sent in Scotland last Christmas. What happened to the fivers 'worth £50,000'? 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z

Its 'old-fashioned' fivers are staying in use for now, despite the Bank of England's version being withdrawn at midnight on Friday night. No change as Northern Ireland paper £5 note stays in use - BBC News 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z

The last was the £5 note featuring reformer Elizabeth Fry which was replaced by a Winston Churchill fiver. Jane Austen £10 note enters circulation 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z

Millions of paper fivers are still in purses, wallets and piggy banks, despite the banknote ceasing to be legal tender by the weekend. Deadline to dig out old paper £5 notes - BBC News 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z

Yes, there is a six-week waiting list and, yes, there are few bricks-and-mortar stores allowing you to try before you buy, but, at a little over a fiver, how much can one complain? Sali Hughes: the 50 best ethical beauty buys 2017-07-15T04:00:00Z

The first time I went to Wimbledon, I slipped a steward a fiver to get on to the court where he was playing doubles. Ilie Nastase must be evicted from tennis for his behaviour at Fed Cup | Kevin Mitchell 2017-04-22T04:00:00Z

But only two of them produce fivers - the Ulster Bank and the Bank of Ireland. No change as Northern Ireland paper £5 note stays in use - BBC News 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z

When the Bank of England issued the new plastic fiver last year, it promised it would be "much more durable". New fiver is not so indestructible - if you know how - BBC News 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z

Finding a fiver for the electric meter, or making sure there’s food on the table at all, is a common battle across the country. A veg (or five) too far: why 10 portions a day is way too much to ask | Kathleen Kerridge 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z

"Then we received this note in the mail along with the fiver," he told BBC News NI. Mystery Irish woman gives £50k fiver to charity - BBC News 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z

The new plastic fivers entered circulation in September. Bank of England urged to make new £5 note vegan-friendly 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z

Trump is the leader of the free world and people can’t even stretch to a fiver for his tiny little doll shoes. Cheer corner: how to cope with the new world order (with kittens) 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z

"To buy Mad Max on DVD is about a fiver, but a digital copy is £10 to £12 - that's more than double," he says. Why do film downloads cost more than DVDs? - BBC News 2016-11-05T04:00:00Z

"When I started out it cost a fortune to trade, the spreads between buying and selling were huge. Now you can trade on your mobile phone for a fiver," says Mr Haynes. How the Big Bang changed the City of London forever - BBC News 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z

However, it is Ireland's anonymous donor who is causing the biggest stir after she discovered the rare fiver - and handed it back. Mystery Irish woman gives £50k fiver to charity - BBC News 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z

Business for Sterling succeeded because it found language and symbols – the Queen’s head on a fiver – that touched the nerves of millions of people. The man who brought you Brexit | Sam Knight 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z

But the man whose tweet kick-started this fundraising initiative, is still undecided about who he'll give his first fiver to. First fiver: How a single tweet kick-started a fundraising campaign - BBC News 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z

The 52-year-old struck the jackpot after visiting a bank branch shortly after a delivery of new fivers - on the day after the launch date. 'I sold three new fivers for £460' on Ebay - BBC News 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z

The new fiver, which enters circulation next week, is made from polymer, an altogether less romantic material than cotton paper. Notable & Quotable: Britain’s Plastic Banknote 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z

The fiver, British slang for a £5 note, is expected to last about two and a half times as long as the current generation of paper notes. Britain Unveils New 5-Pound Note, in Bid to Foil Counterfeiters 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z

But it's not all new and modern: The portrait on the new fiver depicts wartime leader Winston Churchill, still one of Britain's most revered statesmen. Britain's new money is plastic, easy to launder (in machine) 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z

But it’s not all new and modern: The portrait on the new fiver depicts wartime leader Winston Churchill, still one of Britain’s most revered statesmen. Britain's new money is plastic, easy to launder (in machine) 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z

After arriving at the bank just at the right time, Mr Scrase decided to put a set of three fivers with consecutive serial numbers on internet auction site Ebay. 'I sold three new fivers for £460' on Ebay - BBC News 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z

The Bank of England is releasing its first £5 polymer note, but the Northern Bank was the first in the UK to issue a polymer fiver back in October 1999. Plastic note pioneer Northern Ireland beats Britain by 17 years - BBC News 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z

The polymer note - which is much more durable than the old fiver - will initially only be available from a handful of banks and cash points. Most may have to wait a week for the new plastic fiver - BBC News 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z

The new fiver is expected to last on average around five years, two-and-a-half times longer than a traditional note, making them more environmentally friendly and costing less over time, according to the Bank. Flash the plastic – Bank of England unveils untearable plastic £5 note 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z

Leigh Gilbert stuck a fiver on as soon as the former Chelsea manager was hired. The madness of how Leicester turned from dreamers into dream-makers 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z

The polymer note - which is much more durable than the old fiver - was delivered to banks over the course of a week. 'I sold three new fivers for £460' on Ebay - BBC News 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z

The plastic fiver was the only type of note not replaced. Plastic note pioneer Northern Ireland beats Britain by 17 years - BBC News 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z

The new fiver will depict Winston Churchill on the back. Most may have to wait a week for the new plastic fiver - BBC News 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z

The Bank will start to withdraw the old paper fivers as soon as the new ones are circulated. Flash the plastic – Bank of England unveils untearable plastic £5 note 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z

There are £63bn worth of notes in circulation in the UK: if you wanted to lop 1% off that, you could simply cancel half of all fivers without warning. Crime, terrorism and tax evasion: why banks are waging war on cash | Paul Mason 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z

The new fiver, which features the image of Sir Winston Churchill, is not the first plastic banknote to be seen in the UK. 'I sold three new fivers for £460' on Ebay - BBC News 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z

The new Bank of England fiver will be followed by a £10 polymer note in summer 2017 and the £20 note by 2020. Plastic note pioneer Northern Ireland beats Britain by 17 years - BBC News 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z

Like most papers, it carries the obligatory picture of the couple spraying champagne straight out of a bottle - which seems to be be a bit of a waste of that fiver. Newspaper headlines: Snooping bosses, Lotto winners and Bowie - BBC News 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z

The security features on the new plastic fiver include: A see-through window featuring the Queen’s portrait. Flash the plastic – Bank of England unveils untearable plastic £5 note 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z

A fiver deposited at the bank might buy you a £4.95 credit in your account. Crime, terrorism and tax evasion: why banks are waging war on cash | Paul Mason 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z

It was a fiver, but I bet the wad on one hand. In New Orleans, the walk of death has brought me to life (and a round of beer) 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z

The fiver will soon feature the face of Sir Winston Churchill. Who would you put on a banknote? 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z

A bit like a small child with a fiver burning a hole in its pocket, let loose in Aldi or Lidl... Pedestrian Liverpool fall short 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z

Clubs are obsessed with “revenue”, nearly always at the expense of their “customers”: £50 for a ticket; £3.50 for a “match brochure”; a fiver for a gristle’n’bark pie. Should fans be refunded for poor performances? 2014-10-25T04:00:00Z

The latter option, particularly the fragrant beef-and-coriander hua, is alone worth the additional fiver. Riverside Hotpot Cuisine: Fresh, flavorful DIY Chinese food with an Italian accent

King barters, knocking them down then up again, settling on what sounded like $6 for the best of them, giving the others a fiver each. Don King takes old hustler act to Egypt to sell King of the Nile bout 2014-07-26T04:00:00Z

There the same bottle sets you back a fiver. What is an unfair mark-up on a bottle of wine? 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z

When I buy a pint, a packet of mints or anything really, I am often to be seen holding up a note and asking the seller: "Is this a fiver or a tenner?" The trouble blind people have with £1 coins 2014-03-19T11:44:59Z

And that will only accelerate when Britain’s “fivers” and other notes join in beginning in 2016. Britain to Join Ranks of Nations Using Plastic Currency 2013-12-18T15:44:18Z

"I make it up into little bunches and put a ribbon on and sell it mainly to young courting couples - I can sell a little bunch like that for a fiver," she said. Centuries-old romance with mistletoe 2013-12-10T07:51:46Z

Only time will tell if shoppers spending a weekly fiver will spark the town's revival. Can a fiver save the high street? 2013-10-08T02:25:49Z

The current Bank of England banknotes are made from cotton fibre and linen rag, with the average fiver only lasting for a year. Plastic banknotes 'ready for 2016' 2013-09-10T13:00:05Z

The announcement from the Bank of England follows months of controversy, after their previous news that Elizabeth Fry is being axed from the fiver. Bank notes need more women 2013-07-27T23:07:00Z

Caroline Criado-Perez started a battle on this principle: if the Bank of England wanted to take Elizabeth Fry, the only woman on any banknote, off the fiver, it had to replace her with another woman. The Jane Austen banknote victory shows young women are packing a punch 2013-07-24T14:54:45Z

And that’s why fast food customers are seeing more and more of the fiver. In Fast Food, Five—As in $5—Is Now the Magic Number 2013-06-10T16:43:58Z

"I don't think there are many people who would agree to that kind of arrangement, it is unreasonable to ask people to commit to that for a fiver." PSNI crime scene staff on strike 2013-06-04T16:28:54Z

And every mile covered on crowded, traffic-laden central London streets is done on a bike he bought for a fiver. VIDEO: I cycle 22,000 miles a year 2013-05-28T23:01:01Z

Tom Backner is a 15 man but does not object to fivers. Straight Sets: Quirks of the Game: How Tennis Got Its Scoring System 2013-05-24T23:53:56Z

If you like a real challenge with your iOS games, then Frozen Synapse is a fiver well spent this week. 20 best iPhone and iPad apps this week 2013-05-20T11:28:47Z

Two abstained, one refused "unless it's Blue Nun" and six chipped in a fiver each, despite collective misgivings that it made everyone look a bit desperate. Stuart Pearce's plea for Roy Hodgson's help needs backing 2013-05-18T21:00:16Z

Andrew Graham said he "wouldn't pay a fiver for it". The Loop: Us and our spoons 2013-05-10T14:25:42Z

As Marx lends Engel’s a fiver, the peer to peer capitalism starts. The ECB's rate cut: Better late than never 2013-05-02T16:22:15Z

The current face of the fiver is Elizabeth Fry, who, among other things, worked to improve conditions in prisons in the early 1800s. New five pound note design revealed 2013-04-26T11:24:58Z

I paid the extra fiver before I realised it wasn't an official site. The Google adverts helping to rip-off consumers 2013-02-02T07:01:09Z

The rest of us must be content with fivers, tenners, twenties and fifties. Britain's £1m and £100m banknotes 2013-01-26T02:09:13Z

That's uncomfortable since online shopping, at delivery charges of only a fiver, is clearly less profitable than trade conducted in supermarkets. Record-breaking Sainsbury's? Sort of 2013-01-09T14:40:31Z

But nobody is consistently charging more than a fiver and the groceries themselves cost the same whether you turn up in person to wheel a trolley or have the goods delivered to your front door. Online shopping, gilt yields and Goldman 2013-01-04T17:59:00Z

According to the latest Rasmussen poll that august body is now at fiver percent approval among the citizens, and they earned it. The Real Challenges for a New Defense Secretary 2013-01-02T18:05:22Z

Festive cheer indeed, particularly so that when anything was paid over a fiver, half of that was donated to charity. Football League: your thoughts 2012-12-22T18:37:10Z

I couldn't even afford a fiver a week. 'Bedroom tax' dilemma for tenants 2012-11-20T12:53:16Z

A fiver on Burns featuring in some capacity against Fiji on 10 November is not the world's worst investment. Gloucester's Freddie Burns only three steps to rugby heaven and England 2012-09-28T12:14:00Z

A good football costs anything from a fiver up. Olympics 2012: how to get involved in football 2012-08-17T14:09:08Z

To get in the spirit, I put a fiver on the Argentines to win the double scull event in rowing on Saturday at 5 to 1 odds. How to Set Odds on the Olympics 2012-08-01T15:35:41Z

It's the equivalent of about a fiver each for all Londoners. If Cameron can take a joke, a rebranded London could save the economy 2012-07-07T23:03:19Z

That's the sort of soundbite that looks good on paper, but here I am, down to my last fiver…You need vision, says Burton. The secret to surviving a recession 2012-06-22T22:00:32Z

Or… We found a packet of glow-in-the-dark stars on the internet for about a fiver. Space tourism: to infinity and beyond? 2012-06-16T23:05:23Z

I think he still gets a fiver off his mum if he scores. St Helens 54-0 Bradford 2012-06-08T20:54:45Z

Josh is a really good prospect and I think he still gets a fiver off his mum if he scores. St Helens 54-0 Bradford 2012-06-08T21:22:24Z

A fiver for parking is just a backdoors way of putting £5 on the entry fee. Talking Horses: Latest news and best bets in our daily racing blog 2012-06-06T11:09:28Z

And I don't mean a fiver for a pin badge. Talking Horses: The latest news from York and best bets in our daily horse racing blog 2012-05-17T10:41:38Z

"Here, take this fiver with my compliments to Herr Rumpelstiltzkin and ask him to cut out that tune and give us the 'Dead March' instead." The Vanity Girl 2012-04-12T02:00:26.883Z

Every penny of it: it would cost you or me, or any ordinary person, at least a fiver. A Bride from the Bush 2011-12-24T03:08:05.053Z

After all, to banking execs, a fiver is just small change. Top 10 Brand Disasters of 2011 2011-12-14T12:20:43Z

When the other day he sent me out to change his last fiver, and told me he'd have to make it do till quarter day, and there's still three weeks to that. A Woman Perfected 2011-12-02T03:00:24.420Z

Pirates of the Caribbean, in which the majority of the audience chose to see the 2-D version, the answer is no—especially not for a so-so movie when an extra fiver is on the line. Summer Blockbuster Bust: Fewest Movie Tickets Sold Since 1997 2011-09-06T18:34:25Z

It’ll be change for his fiver;” and I chuckled at my joke. The Outspan Tales of South Africa 2011-08-31T02:01:41.410Z

“Major, I think these are worth a fiver.” An I.D.B. in South Africa 2011-08-31T02:01:33.733Z

Well, of course, you must please yourself, old girl, but I shouldn’t let Evie do me out of a fiver if I were you. The Triumph of Jill 2011-08-31T02:01:25.060Z

You see," he continued, five minutes after,—"you see, we're both of us pretty well cleared out; I've only got half a pony, and you haven't a couple of fivers left. Cecil Castlemaine's Gage, Lady Marabout's Troubles, and Other Stories 2011-08-25T02:00:30.323Z

He cost me a fiver, but I had on a waistcoat lined with notes, and I'd more than five minutes in hand at Charing Cross. The Thousandth Woman 2011-08-15T02:00:25.383Z

Last night he had changed his last fiver and paid his boys. The Outspan Tales of South Africa 2011-08-31T02:01:41.410Z

"Don't mind him," said the Red Cap, soothingly; "he's invariably a conservative when he has the price of a dinner in his pocket, and he's just borrowed a fiver from me." The Red Room 2011-08-13T02:00:26.943Z

As soon as they had fingered a fiver or two they began to give themselves such airs. Crying for the Light, Vol. 2 [of 3] or Fifty Years Ago 2011-07-23T02:00:11.327Z

Stick a fiver on every race and you could have chomped through £200 before nightfall. Talking Horses 2011-07-15T10:05:57Z

I spotted the fiver first but then I realised it was a million pound as well. Taxi driver's tip wins ?1m lotto 2011-07-13T16:33:13Z

I’d almost bet a fiver that those two pre-Raphaelite angels will each be provided with an antique lachrymatory designed by their dear brother, and they’ll drop their tears therein and stopper them up. Eli's Children The Chronicles of an Unhappy Family 2011-07-08T02:00:20.557Z

"Eight fivers," said Glen, handing him a note. The Sweep Winner 2011-06-24T02:00:21.067Z

I sold the lot to old Pardy for a fiver and paid for my boots, deposit on shares and separator, and exes. in town out of it. From Chart House to Bush Hut Being the Record of a Sailor's 7 Years in the Queensland Bush 2011-06-08T02:00:16.290Z

I saw the gleam in her eye when she stowed away your fiver. Poppy The Story of a South African Girl 2011-05-20T02:00:25.147Z

If a fiver will be of any service to you, I hope you will do me the favour to accept it. The Child Wife 2011-04-21T02:00:50.050Z

Socked him a fiver and threatened if he didn’t come through by Saturday night I’d have him up. The Bail Jumper 2011-04-16T02:00:19.103Z

‘Go down to the “Black Bull,” and get this fiver Mr. Palliser has given me changed,’ he said.” The Dust of Conflict 2011-04-14T02:01:04.343Z

It is a "tenner," but in the darkness he cannot tell, and believing it only a "fiver," still thinks it too much; for it is all extra of his fare. Gwen Wynn 2011-04-09T02:00:12.230Z

I have another fiver, I may as well go the whole hog and risk it. The Second String 2011-04-08T02:00:07.383Z

Did he sign himself guaranteed as a tenner, worth two fivers, and 'twas afterwards found he wasn't? Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 105, July 8th 1893 2011-03-26T02:00:11.953Z

Nine months Eighteen months Three years Which of these is on today's £5 notes, but was not on the original fiver issued in 1793? Midweek quiz 2011-03-23T04:01:04Z

Do say: "I remember when a fiver was a living wage." Pass notes No 2,496: The fiver 2011-03-22T19:59:00Z

"You shall have a pocket full of fivers when I prove my innocence," said Hector. Fast as the Wind A Novel 2011-03-22T02:00:19.407Z

Yet, figures obtained by the BBC reveal that fewer than 3% of the UK's cash machines dispense fivers - even though the technology is available to do so. More of less 2011-03-16T23:53:52Z

"Lucky is it! all fivers—not a tenner among them!" How to be Happy Though Married Being a Handbook to Marriage 2011-03-11T03:00:13.410Z

Tap water is free and portable yet I was spending a fiver a day on bottled water. Britain's new entrepreneurs: young guns go for it 2011-03-06T00:11:44Z

"The fiver should start to look as familiar – and as smart – as our other denominations," says the Bank of England. Pass notes No 2,496: The fiver 2011-03-22T19:59:00Z

I 'm taking the 'fiver,' too, as it's to be our last meetin'. Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume II. 2011-02-18T03:00:19.343Z

So why does our Pin bring crisp £10s and £20s when all we might want, need, or be able to afford, is a fiver? More of less 2011-03-16T23:53:52Z

After all a fiver with a whole skin was better than nothing with a damaged one, and he had a very shrewd idea that that was how it would be with him if he remained. A Woman's Burden 2011-02-13T03:00:21.253Z

It is a “tenner,” but in the darkness he cannot tell, and believing it only a “fiver,” still thinks it too much. Gwen Wynn A Romance of the Wye 2011-02-09T03:00:45.007Z

“I’ll slip you a fiver to get me out of here.” Swamp Island 2011-01-28T03:00:22.400Z

Loading the machine into his van, Faulds said: "We paid £200 for this, so we've got about a fiver off through beating VAT, and what's a fiver these days?" From Ely to Bradford, shoppers mass for one last splurge 2011-01-03T20:59:48Z

Barclays, home of the first ever cash machine, says it has 600 ATMs in its network that dispense fivers, but has no current plans to increase the number. More of less 2011-03-16T23:53:52Z

Bethune stared—"you wouldn't like to lend me a fiver, would you?" The Man with the Double Heart 2010-12-21T22:55:56.757Z

As a gesture to the fans they should charge a maximum of a fiver and let kids in for free. Oval-ball overload is damaging the international game 2010-10-26T10:42:00Z

If you can spare a fiver, please sponsor James Dart as he cycles a very long way for charity. Slovakia v Paraguay ? live! 2010-06-20T10:50:00Z

I was so grateful that I handed the chap a fiver from my winnings, and told him I was Jock. McCracken wants to cut deal with BHA 2010-06-08T23:06:00Z

Large retailers also agreed to give out more fivers in change, and together these would add a further 400 million £5 notes into circulation by 2012. More of less 2011-03-16T23:53:52Z

There were no "perquisites" to be gleaned, save an occasional lonely "fiver" handed over for Bridge at her house. The Man with the Double Heart 2010-12-21T22:55:56.757Z

So, it occurred to me that if I've just irrigated Africa and helped the polar bear for under a fiver, chances are it would cost much less to save Portsmouth. The Fiver 2010-05-14T14:53:00Z

While you might not find Pucci perfection for a fiver on your first outing — or even your 10th — the hunt is half the fun. Sifting Worthy Vintage Clothes from the Discards 2010-05-06T02:42:00Z

Just throw bunches of fivers at the punters, and see if they pick them up. Freebie push helps disgruntled punters over the Times paywall 2010-05-01T20:28:00Z

The common arguments against packing more fivers into cash machines included the greater cost to companies that sorted and supplied banknotes. More of less 2011-03-16T23:53:52Z

Now tell us you had a fiver on the treble at 329-1, and the drinks will be on you. Talking Horses: Today's best bets and live news on day three of the Punchestown Festival 2010-04-22T11:33:00Z

"On one occasion in the past I told the driver where I lived, how far it was and he said that it was going to be a fiver," she told BBC Asian Network. 2010-01-20T10:21:00Z

It's like watching your house burn down and then finding a crumpled fiver in your pyjama pocket. 2010-01-14T08:02:00Z

I offered a fiver for the dog, because that’s what he’s worth. A Little World

It says its ATMs dispensing £5 notes are clearly labelled, and give out at least two fivers in a combination of notes when customers withdraw between £40 and £100. More of less 2011-03-16T23:53:52Z

I took you up, same as I did your bills, when you were so hard hit that you didn’t know where to go for a fiver. A Double Knot

I dare say old Wilters would lend me a fiver, if I asked him.” Lady Maude's Mania

"I could raise a couple of fivers, perhaps," said Pip. "Pip" A Romance of Youth

You saw she had a fiver on the number? Witching Hill

"It might be good for a fiver," murmured Bob. The Jolliest Term on Record A Story of School Life

"And a fiver?" stipulated the chauffeur, avaricious but cautious. The Gay Adventure A Romance

A fiver, tell him, if he gets a move on. The Haunted Pajamas

He thinks his information is worth a prospective fiver. Hard Pressed

Lay you a fiver it makes you sit up when I spring it on you. The Riddle of the Night

Ten pounds to both Lampard and Clary, and six fivers among the rest, would postpone any violent pressure for a while. Plashers Mead A Novel

"Right, sir," responded Glew, a creature to whom the word "fiver" was all that was necessary by way of present explanation. The Gay Adventure A Romance

This fellow Bronson offered to lend me a fiver one day, and I got into the habit of asking him. Harper's Round Table, August 13, 1895

He doesn't deserve any consideration from me, but it will be worth a fiver later. Hard Pressed

“Here, I may as well put the pot on as it seems to be something extra good, so you’ll have to make it two fivers, uncle, and two make ten.” Sir Hilton's Sin

“Do you think I am going to buy the sanction of your society by a paltry fiver?” was my reply; and the agent went away faster than he came. Christopher Crayon's Recollections The Life and Times of the late James Ewing Ritchie as told by himself

His young companion, who had won a fiver and was in a most beatific state, came and sat on his bunk whilst he undressed. Jacob's Ladder

There I was, stranded in the Windy City, with a fiver. The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 6 August 1906

If you don't, send him a quid or two—or put it at a fiver. When Ghost Meets Ghost

"Last time you came to see me at school Sir Tom gave me a fiver——" "A what?" Sir Tom

In the days when I was starving in my native South," said the painter, "I used to paint portraits of tradesmen's wives for a fiver. General Bramble

You don’t know what it feels like to be up to your eyes in debt and not knowing where to turn for a fiver. The Phantom Lover

"I'll lay you a fiver," said I, "that when he has my offer you will never so much as hear from him again." The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 27, March 1893 An Illustrated Monthly

"I'll take it," said May, handing a fiver to the auctioneer, which the farmer reluctantly covered. Australia Revenged

But he's in a beastly humor now, and wouldn't send me a fiver to save my life. Lippincott's Magazine, September, 1885

Tom," he said at last, "you may have the fiver, but not because I'm afraid of anything you can say. Sunlight Patch

Youth’s innings will come, and I bet a fiver—no, no, what am I thinking of?—I stake my honour that Youth’s middle stump gets bowled first ball.” The Tale of Timber Town

Bruce bid a "fiver" for Thunderer, and was told he would fetch that for cats' meat, and then the game went on. Godfrey Marten, Undergraduate

Well, I don't mind losing my fiver at any rate, for you certainly have earned it. Australia Revenged

The odd 'fiver' will pay all the expenses, and if the Q.P. win the Cup, why all that will be mine. Scottish Football Reminiscences and Sketches

Say, guv'nor, you couldn't let me have a fiver, could you? The New Tenant

I’ll bet you a fiver—one of your own, if you like—that the rivers are in flood, and your people can’t get across. The Tale of Timber Town

"Phillips says we shall have to pay a fiver each, what do you think?" Godfrey Marten, Undergraduate

And now you refuse to give me even a fiver!” The Golden Face A Great 'Crook' Romance

He begins with a note for fifty and goes on with fifty in fivers. Punch or the London Charivari, September 9, 1914

Well, I bet the little hussy a fiver. Dolly Reforming Herself A Comedy in Four Acts

The English politician has often done that; though there is nothing to be said of such a fool, except that he has wasted a fiver. What I Saw in America

I flatter myself that I combined frankness with good-nature in the right proportion, and in the end he was always satisfied with the nimble fiver. The Explorer

Fivers were blossoms of a rare growth among us in those days, and I won’t swear that the table bristled with fivers. Old Familiar Faces

"I'll trot him five miles out and home in a dog-cart, on any road out of Oxford, against any horse you can bring, for a fiver." Tom Brown at Oxford

"I'd give a fiver for the sight of a good old White Ensign at the present moment," remarked the Flight-Sub anxiously. The Submarine Hunters A Story of the Naval Patrol Work in the Great War

“Certainly,” says he, and drops a fiver into it before he passes it over. Odd Numbers Being Further Chronicles of Shorty McCabe

Suffice it to say that one of my brothers, an excellent judge, offered me a fiver for the lot, and said that he expected to lose money by it. Marge Askinforit

A fiver for a week or two in London? The Prodigal Father

"Now, Brown, shall we divide the balance,—a fiver a piece?" Tom Brown at Oxford

“Well—how would a couple o’ fivers be, now?” asked the anxious one. The Herapath Property

Brown writes to me saying that he is taking the wife and kids to the seaside, and would I please pay him the fiver I owe him? A Dominie in Doubt

Next thing is to ask 'em to sling Tommy a fiver over and above his wages—for saving of the boat and trade, mind, Joe. The Ebbing Of The Tide South Sea Stories - 1896

"You can have any bullock you like—the biggest in the lot—for a fiver—but, cash down." "Chinkie's Flat" 1904

The best patrons of racing were present, men who thoroughly enjoyed a match of this kind and were content with a fiver on the one they fancied. The Rider in Khaki A Novel

This the Major, who is an Irishman, discovered only late in the evening, when he declared he would have "given a fiver" if he had only known it in the morning. A Boy's Voyage Round the World

They're uncommon good for the throat; and a little quinine for the general system—that would put you as right as a fiver. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873

Now, I'd lay a fiver I could cut loose from here at reveille and shoot the passes before taps and never pull a stroke. Waring's Peril

There’s a fiver under the papers of the top right hand drawer of bureau in smoke room. The Man Who Lost Himself

Thrush seemed favorably impressed with Meason; no doubt an occasional fiver helped in this direction, for Tom was fond of money. The Rider in Khaki A Novel

If another fiver would bring Selby-Harrison by the next steamer—Hullo! Lalage's Lovers

But Cranbourne detached a fiver from its fellows and extended it temptingly. Men of Affairs

And that leaves it forty cents shy of a fiver. Rival Pitchers of Oakdale

"The heir to a million has been bought for a fiver." The Crooked House

"Well, sir," he answered, "you know your own business best, but I wouldn't go along there for a fiver." Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile

He could do what he liked with our bowling before, but now we have got to run nearly off our legs to fetch up fivers. Glyn Severn's Schooldays

Cranbourne produced another fiver and pushed it into the man's hand. Men of Affairs

To hear you talk, anybody might think you were ruined instead of merely getting hit for less than a fiver. Rival Pitchers of Oakdale

So that if a chestnut was a fiver, and it beat a tenner, it became at one leap a fifteener. Dr. Jolliffe's Boys

The school divided itself forthwith into two factions, calling themselves the “fivers” and “sixers.” Parkhurst Boys And Other Stories of School Life

Never mind what it is; you must get it somehow, and you’ll get a fiver for it. Reginald Cruden A Tale of City Life

He pulled a note case from his pocket and detached a fiver. Men of Affairs

I returned to school covered with self-satisfaction, and virtuously clutching in my hand half-a-crown, the final change out of the “fiver.” Tom, Dick and Harry

Hilary does not bet beyond the modest 'fiver' which a man would be thought unsociable if he did not risk on the horse that carries the country's colours. Round About a Great Estate

Before I could turn and make towards him “Time!” was shouted from the bank; and so the Parkhurst Swimming Contest ended in a lamentable, though not disgraceful, defeat of the “fivers.” Parkhurst Boys And Other Stories of School Life

"Or are you proposing to tip me a fiver?" Quisanté

Your recognisances, Sir Roderick—for a fiver or so, if you ask me. Foe-Farrell

His claim that a large leather wallet containing several fivers and a diamond ring broke the line and got away after a terrific struggle is being received with the usual caution. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, December 1, 1920

"I think I should like it in gold—a fiver at a time." The Admirable Tinker Child of the World

Here, I’ll hand out a fiver and keep this for you until morning. Andy at Yale Or, The Great Quadrangle Mystery

Mr. Poet, the idea is yours for a fiver. The Idiot

"The moment I hear that the young lady has been at the house you shall have the fiver and a good tip beyond your fare." Enter Bridget

Oh, went locoed clean out of his head, kicked my hat off the bed post, took out a fiver, said, 'Wayland, that's my last! The Freebooters of the Wilderness

Here's a fiver to pay for your trouble, and another for the lad who brought you here. The Chief Legatee

Well, we went along—to this pal of Jimmy's, and Jimmy borrowed a fiver. The Second Honeymoon

"I'll bet you a fiver I can put more of these rings over than you can." On With Torchy

"It's worth a fiver extra if you make good time," Lindsay told the driver. The Big-Town Round-Up

"I assure you—" "Well, that's all right, now's your chance to lend me a fiver." Mike Fletcher A Novel

The prompt answer was quite remarkable in its way: "The man what I bought it of receives just half as many sixpences for sixteen dozen dozen bananas as he gives bananas for a fiver." Amusements in Mathematics

After all, I reflected, I could pay at the other end with a very small portion of the contents of the pocket-book, which I reckoned must contain at least half-a-dozen fivers. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-02-25

"Just say you let me have a fiver for him." On With Torchy

The House was still obstinate, until Mr. Bonar Law declared that the Government would resign if they did not get their "fiver." Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-03-20

"I'll lend you a fiver or a tenner, if you like, Miss Slater." Mike Fletcher A Novel

The common marbles used by boys everywhere are called mibs, fivers, commies, migs, megs, alleys, and dubs. Outdoor Sports and Games

Swooped down like a hawk when he saw us an' waved his hand, laughin' fit to kill himself, an' dropped Johnny a fiver an' gee! Diane of the Green Van

"Spendigo for a fiver!—and well found, by the tune of it," cried Sir Harry. The Ship of Stars

As a "Sub," free from family ties, With constant "fivers" from the Pater, The Rupee I thought a goodly size, Though once its value was much greater. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, November 12, 1892

As they drove home, she slid her hand into his pocket like a cunning child and said: "Osborn, I want a fiver awf'ly badly; lend me one." Married Life The True Romance

He said that his conscientious objections to betting were well known and life-long, but that even they would not stand in the way of his wife's putting a fiver on their dog Stanislaus. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, June 6, 1917

The landlord has lent me a fiver, so don't worry about me. Captivity

I kicked at him under the seat of the carriage, but it was of no use, he persisted in his reckless offers of "laying fivers," and our united ignorance stood fatally revealed. The Great Lone Land A Narrative of Travel and Adventure in the North-West of America

"This'll mean a fiver for you, my man," he heard one of them shout to the driver. Half A Chance

He used to rave like a lunatic about his daughter; but I don't suppose he spent a fiver on her in his life. The Divine Fire

The proper way to dispose of one is to slip it between a couple of genuine fivers when paying your taxi fare. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, January 29, 1919

He has just decided to put "a fiver" on him when he meets an acquaintance, who suggests a drink. The Pleasures of Ignorance

He spoiled everything … my dress and my jacket too—it was quite a new one; I gave a fiver for it … and tore my kerchief from my head… Oh, Lord! Best Russian Short Stories

There is a camera obscura placed in an ancient castle, which projects into the fiver, and which we admired extremely. A tour through some parts of France, Switzerland, Savoy, Germany and Belgium

"Excuse me, Sir," he said, after looking through the document at my request; "but you see there is a fine of a fiver for wilfully giving false information." Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, April 11, 1891

I wouldn't be out of this for a fiver.' A Diversity of Creatures

When he had got ten yards on his way towards Harold Etches and a fiver he felt something in his hand. The Card, a Story of Adventure in the Five Towns

I didn't stick a brand-new fiver in the black-silk-dress pattern, knowing all the while she'd have it drunk up before she opened the creases out. Every Soul Hath Its Song

"But—" "We may, as you say, look twice at a fiver," continued Edward Henry. The Regent

Take back that fiver," said she, "an' come and eat with me. The Purple Heights

I am quoting your own bill—I'll bet a fiver, too, that you drafted it. True Tilda

"And I'll lay a fiver to a farthing that it's the right one!" Dead Men's Money

I sent her a fiver, Marj, and a black silk, and a doll with real hair for the kid. Every Soul Hath Its Song

He negligently dropped him five fivers, his share of the option's value. The Regent

"Here is a fiver," replied the parson, softly. Bred in the Bone

I hear some brute associate of yours out in the street asking you to lend him another 'fiver.' Colonel Quaritch, V.C. A Tale of Country Life

Yet all he has to do is to pay his little fiver across the counter just as if he were buying a pound of tea. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, November 21, 1917

Touched me for a V once, and I am looking for that fiver yet. Frank Merriwell at Yale

Mr. Marrier said nothing, but his eye met Edward Henry's, and in silence five fivers were meted out to Mr. Marrier also.... The Regent

He is rather disappointed at getting so little change out of his "fiver." Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, October 24, 1917

Just at this moment I am hard up myself for a fiver. Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow

He tipped the guards with brand new fivers, And sang little songs to the engine drivers. The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan

So he is to have a fiver a week while he keeps me alive, and he's going to be married next month. Raffles, Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman

"Well," said Edward Henry, "I'll bet you a fiver I do." The Regent

Scaife could pick up very little information about him, except that he was a decent old fellow, who paid his bills regularly, and was always good for a fiver for a local charity. The Thirty-Nine Steps

You'd better not have all the money on you; you had better open a small account in the post-office and draw it out a fiver at a time. Ann Veronica, a modern love story

"I can lend you a fiver," she said. Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise

I'll give you a fiver, and you can go away from Saturday to Monday. Of Human Bondage

Our estimates had varied between thirty shillings and a fiver. Three Elephant Power and Other Stories

When you wanted five hundred it was pretty rotten to be put off with a fiver. Mr. Waddington of Wyck

"Bet you a fiver to a halfpenny it's the Pike," retorted Vickers. Scarhaven Keep

Now, he'd run to a fiver—cash down—if some writing feller 'ud touch things up a bit for him, like. The Orange-Yellow Diamond

Then some one lent him a fiver, and, by Jove, he turned the corner! The Mischief Maker

If he could find a fleet youth with a reputedly fast pony, Bill would offer to "pull the little cuddy out of the sulky and run yer for a fiver." Three Elephant Power and Other Stories

When the paper started, the proprietors—not the present ones—thought it would give the thing a boom if they had a football competition with a first prize of a fiver a week for life. A Man of Means

You'd have thought a decent, faithful servant would have been delighted to oblige one in a little matter like that for a fiver. My Man Jeeves

If he had only had a fiver on the horse—200 to 5! Esther Waters

"I think," Julien said, "that I could guess the name of the man who lent him the fiver." The Mischief Maker

"Well, in spite of your opinions I repeat I'd give a fiver to see that game Saturday." The Story of Sugar

He was capable of borrowing a fiver from the Pope—or at least of attempting the feat; of pocketing some hungry widow's last mite and therewith purchasing a cigarette before her eyes. Alone

Probably he doesn’t; he hasn’t got a million pounds to leave; he has, in fact, just written to you to ask you to lend him a fiver. If I May

"But I don't mind losing that fiver, considering that we have gained four days on her." The Treasure of the Incas

An' the chaps is tryin' to fix up a fiver to put some life into the thing. Children of the Bush

If you'll stay with the Betty for a day or so, I'll give you this fiver to buy or hire another boat with until you can get your compensation out of our German friends. A Rogue by Compulsion

Bet you a level fiver I'm married this year. The Postmaster's Daughter

“Can you lend me a fiver?” he asked. Tomaso's Fortune and Other Stories

Don't agitate yourself, my dear fellow; and as to betting, I would not risk more than a fiver. Smith and the Pharaohs, and other Tales

I suppose the boys will soon be talking of getting `fivers' and `tenners' out of the `guvner' or `old man.' Children of the Bush

"I have no possession in the world that would be worth a fiver to you," he said, coldly. The Masquerader

Come, sirs,' says I, 'who'll give me a black eye; a fiver's all I ask.' The Broad Highway

And—er—by the way, old man—the fact is, just for the moment, I'm frightfully—You haven't such a thing as a fiver anywhere about, have you? The Intrusion of Jimmy

Dad will be getting another fiver any day. Dear Brutus

"You could stake your last fiver on it, he is!" Australia Felix

I suppose we must give him a fiver. Pygmalion

"Oh, don't get crackly just because you're a Buffalo bill," says the fiver. The Trimmed Lamp, and other Stories of the Four Million

Great Scott, I'll have a fiver each way on both those. The Intrusion of Jimmy

You can't think how exciting it is when the fiver comes in; we dance and then we run out and buy chops. Dear Brutus

"You gather up all the pebbles in the bed of the fiver and we'll make a big wail on the bank to defend you." The King of Ireland's Son

Ah, now you have lost a fiver altogether—how queer! A Laodicean : a Story of To-day

I expected his response would be a flood of tears, and that in the end I should have to fork out a fiver. Idle Ideas in 1905

But, Johnny, if you can let me have one more fiver now I have made arrangements with Amelia how I'm to pay you off by thirty shillings a month,—as I get my salary. The Last Chronicle of Barset

I shall have a fiver on him for luck. The Country House

The night's coming on and the fiver shows no sign of turning back. The King of Ireland's Son

"Yes, there it is, squire—ten fivers and your own note." Stories By English Authors: Italy (Selected by Scribners)

And they can generally sell them for a fiver. All Roads Lead to Calvary

"I'll bet a fiver that beyond that you know nothing about it." The Prime Minister

Freddie, who was sitting next to me, took me in fivers. Something New

The Scholar bought Herr Gustav's white shirt for a fiver, threatening to murder its owner if he did not render it up. Stories by English Authors: Africa (Selected by Scribners)

Never mind," he said, with a short laugh, "I meant to give you a fiver, but it don't make much odds. A Millionaire of Yesterday

"You'd lose your fiver," said Michael, speaking gravely out of the gloom. Manalive

It put him into a better temper than ever, and he said at length: 'I suppose a fiver wouldn't be much use?—For a month, you say?—I might manage a fiver, I think.' New Grub Street

But I’m always ready to back my opinion on a matter of fowls, and I have a fiver on it that the bird I ate is country bred.” The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

"An odd fiver for a kindness—" "Shut up!" Kingdom of the Blind

We printed one fiver off that plate—and then we knew enough to quit. The Adventures of Jimmie Dale

It was an open race, and every man that had a note or a fiver laid it out on one horse or another. Robbery under Arms; a story of life and adventure in the bush and in the Australian goldfields

But on no account if——' 'No, no; I could manage a fiver, for a month. New Grub Street

“Well, then, you’ve lost your fiver, for it’s town bred,” snapped the salesman. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

I had intended to slip a fiver into his hand, but for all his surprise, he was too quick for me. Moon-Face

I got a customer for those fivers—fifteen thousand dollars for all we can turn out to-night. The Adventures of Jimmie Dale

Don't you remember that chestnut Sir Henry colt that no one else could ride, and I backed you not to get thrown, and won a fiver? Robbery under Arms; a story of life and adventure in the bush and in the Australian goldfields

You remember that fiver you gave me the time I didn’t have carfare? Martin Eden

The Bushmen returned to the shanty as soon as the coach was out of sight, and proceeded to 'knock down' the fiver. Joe Wilson and His Mates

单词	fiver
例句	fiver Two of the men still squatted near the Primus stoves, serving corn mush and fiver. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Dragon hide, blood, heart, fiver and horn all have highly magical properties, but dragon eggs are defined as Class A Non-Tradeable Goods. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The notes weren't fivers, nor tenners; they were all twenty-pound notes. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z From the corners of my eyes I saw Mpandhlani give the piece of fiver to a five-year-old boy. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Back went the fiver and out came a tenner! Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Box: What to do with that fiver what you stole.You and Yours: F* 'em. A cool Radio 4? What a turn-off 2011-02-13T00:06:03Z You can enter a bird for under a fiver, but it must be a Racing Homer, so don't bother going to your local park with some birdseed and a net. This week's new events 2011-01-22T00:06:59Z Now the Pub Landlord is hosting a pub quiz, at lunchtime, for just a fiver. Al Murray 2010-08-22T14:57:00Z "It's a football club," he clarified, "It's been taken over – some bloke walking past with a fiver." A week listening to ? Key 103 and BBC Radio Manchester 2011-07-13T13:53:37Z Don't know who these Bootleg Beatles are but they've got some good tunes A fiver says they are described as "a band that needs no introduction" before a lengthy introduction. The Rolling Stones and all tonight's bands – live! 2013-06-30T00:31:00Z They live round the side of Teviot Square and I can particularly recommend Red Box – a lovely box of noodles, with real fresh vegetables, and all for a fiver. An Edinburgh comedy judge's diary: good old-fashioned standup 2010-08-16T09:58:00Z And Don Pedro is flooding the UK with fake Nazi fivers hidden inside one of Rodin's Thinker statues. Best Kept Secret by Jeffrey Archer – digested read 2013-03-01T19:30:01Z The Stones split the 30-guinea performance fee six ways, which somehow meant that Jones got £6 and 10 shillings, everyone else got a fiver. Start it up: the 50th anniversary of the Rolling Stones' first gig 2012-07-09T18:01:01Z But the same high fivers chatter away frustratingly during new songs from her excellent forthcoming album Havoc and Bright Lights. Alanis Morissette – review 2012-06-28T17:09:37Z “The grannies come by and put a fiver on their favorite rose.” Who’s Irish Now? 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z At New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art there is a $20 entrance fee, so why not a fiver for London's great galleries? Labour MP Tristram Hunt calls for national collections to charge entry fees 2011-03-06T00:15:12Z So to be able to watch every season of a show – and every season of hundreds of others of shows – for a fiver a month was revolutionary. Streaming TV is about to get very expensive – here's why 2019-06-27T04:00:00Z For this one, donations start at a fiver. A new chapter for philanthropy? 2011-01-26T11:42:00Z Not good money, mind you, not real money, certainly not more than a fiver. How to make Mega Piranha camper than Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus? Just add Tiffany 2010-07-09T23:06:00Z On a visit to a Comic Relief-assisted school in the Ghanaian capital, Accra, I saw for myself exactly what those pounds and fivers donated over the years translate into on the ground. Why Comic Relief is still a cunning plan 2013-02-04T22:46:53Z And who can argue at a fiver a pop? Cine-files: PeckhamPlex, London 2013-06-11T16:21:57Z She apparently said: “When you first moved to London, I didn’t send you a fiver every other week. It was a tenner.” Christopher Eccleston: ‘I really felt that I was going to die’ 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z The Complete Studio Recordings retails for £50: a fiver per CD. Roxy Music: The Complete Studio Recordings 1972-1982 – review 2012-08-02T14:30:02Z Kevin Bridges Photograph: Andy Hollingworth ON THE UP Forgery The guerrilla marketing prize goes to the Five Pound Fringe, for printing flyers that look like real fivers, especially when left on the pavement. The G2 Edinburgh festival Clap-o-meter: reading two 2010-08-11T13:31:00Z Unfortunately for them, all they'll be able to buy now is some novelty mustard for a fiver and an assortment of peg bags, but there's always Tesco. TV review: Town With Nicholas Crane; The Rattigan Enigma 2011-07-28T21:04:00Z “I’ve been sworn to secrecy,” brags one character, quite early in the novel, when pressed about the fiver in his pocket. The Rebel, the Policeman and a Chase Through Britain and Beyond 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z We didn't want to just give someone a fiver and take a photo, so we spent a while going up and down, looking at who was there. Dinner, dusk and dancing Russians: my best winter shot 2012-12-16T17:59:01Z If you sign up to mystery-shoppers.co.uk you will receive an assignment and could find yourself reviewing a fine dining restaurant with up to £75 to spend – or a local cafe with a fiver. How to have fun for free 2010-10-21T07:00:00Z However, she had suggested her daughter try "offering a fiver for it... which she would not do as it was a charity shop". Ming vase used as £8.50 doorstop in Essex sells for £3,400 2023-07-13T04:00:00Z He continued: "I'd go into the shop and buy about 10 cans and it would only be a fiver. It was about 90 pence for those cans I'm drinking and now they are £2." Call to raise 'life-saving' minimum alcohol price in Scotland 2023-06-27T04:00:00Z If you were given a fiver every time a government minister parroted the slogan that promises to end migrant channel crossings you would be pretty flush by now. 'We can't be honest,' former home secretaries tell Kuenssberg on immigration 2023-06-03T04:00:00Z I colour it myself and spend a fiver every couple of months. Money Diary: 'When the kids are off you end up spending more' 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z Dropped quarters in the couch cushions or a faded fiver plucked from the laundry basket were thrilling and entirely plausible prizes. When the lemonade stand accepts Venmo: What does money mean to kids? 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z We were not even asking for pounds or fivers but just pennies. NI facing into a 'homelessness disaster' this Christmas 2022-12-17T05:00:00Z He added: "I have never even washed a fiver under a bar of soap". Socialite James Stunt told assistant 'please forge my signature' 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z For many households, a fiver is a meal rather than a ride. Hull Fair: Ride owners on rollercoaster of rising costs 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z "I've had my drier on once this month and you can just see the money going down. I used to top up about a fiver a day, if that. Now it's so much more." Three million households waiting for £150 energy rebate 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z Paul Whitehead, who runs the Castle Café in the resort, said they were cooking up a plan to "try and feed people for a fiver". Cost of living: Withernsea residents penniless and 'struggling to live' 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z The polymer fiver featuring Winston Churchill launched in 2016, and the plastic £10 note including the portrait of Jane Austen was first issued in 2017. Just 100 days left to spend paper £20 and £50 notes 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z Indeed, there is a desire to allow manufacturers to produce equipment that would make it even easier to play for those who compete in mere monthly medals or for a friendly fiver. Pro golfers face equipment rule change 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z A weekly shop costs a fiver but its 132 members get around four times that price in food. Cost of living: 'I only put heating on when my grandkids visit' 2022-01-15T05:00:00Z My former Boston Globe colleague Marie Franklin helped spark this effort; she has blogged about how she saved over $40,000 in less than 15 years just by not spending fivers. Upsize the impact of your pocket change 2022-01-08T05:00:00Z The loss represented by the odd pocketed fiver is mainly one of trust. I’m Pro-Choice. Can I Donate to Anti-Abortion Pregnancy Clinics? 2021-05-04T04:00:00Z You work on the assumption that you'll be paying less than a fiver for them after a month when they're not so new and exciting anymore. GameStop: What is it and why is it trending? 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z Their fiver was known as a Gary, after Gary Nash of the Eat or Heat food bank. Big bang theory: how blowing up a Transit van wiped out £1m of debt 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z More than £24.5 billion in old fivers, tenners and twenty pound paper notes are still in circulation. £24.5 billion of paper banknotes never cashed in 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z If I put the fiver in my wallet — rather than the savings jar — I’d still be saving $1.88, an exponentially smaller amount. Upsize the impact of your pocket change 2022-01-08T05:00:00Z She tells me how he loved watching YouTube videos about history and how he had this certain way of saying "Mummy" which meant he wanted a fiver from her. Christopher Kapessa: A mum’s fight for justice 2020-07-12T04:00:00Z Best-selling children's author Walliams put a voice to a fiver for The Diary of a £5 Note, which was crowned gold winner in the 10 to 13 age category. Dua Lipa reads story for last 500 Words final 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z It calculates drivers are being overcharged by more than a fiver a tank. NHS staff being 'ripped off for petrol' 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z He hasn't even taken his ukulele out of its bag when an elderly woman stops, chats for a moment and presses a folded up fiver into his hand. 'Why I don’t want to live in a house' 2020-02-23T05:00:00Z The new £20 is the third plastic banknote to be issued in the UK after the fiver featuring Winston Churchill - launched in 2016 - and the tenner featuring Jane Austen, which was first issued in 2017. New £20 featuring painter Turner enters circulation 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z You don’t want your stepchild to demand a fiver every time he empties the dishwasher there. The secret to being a good stepmother? Here’s my handy guide … \| Tiff Stevenson 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z Both the fiver and the £50 are hoarded, but by whom, and why has the Bank of England just announced plans to give the latter a makeover? When most people never see a £50 note, why have it? 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z For a while people would come up to me in Swindon and say they’d seen me on TV, and a few people got in touch online cheekily asking for a fiver or a tenner. Pennies from heaven: what’s it like to suddenly become rich? 2019-05-19T04:00:00Z People were sending in their fivers and tenners. Four men with a ladder: the billboard campaigners battling Brexit 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z It manufactures the new polymer Bank of England fivers and tenners. Why countries print money outside their borders 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z So until someone finds a Harry Kane fiver and tries to sell it at auction, the answer of whether it truly is worth £50k remains a mystery. Can a fiver really be worth £50k? 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z Seeing his skin drop off in flakes and handing over a fiver to sustain him were actions that called for description, not explanation. Flannery O’Connor’s Revelatory Honesty 2001-01-22T05:00:00Z Currently in a place called Star Wars Hostel for a fiver a night, no return flight home and just secured an England V Croatia ticket. The mad dash to Moscow 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z For 31 other employees, a complete waste of a fiver. World Cup 2018: day five updates as England begin their campaign – live! 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z Swansea, to provide a bit of context, were playing in the last eight of the FA Cup for the first time since 1964 and children’s tickets were a fiver. FA Cup and Premier League: talking points from the weekend 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z One of those fivers raised £6,000 at auction for Children in Need which is a great deal more than the £5 face value but still £44,000 less than £50k. Can a fiver really be worth £50k? 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z They say the copper is important, and it is unlikely they would want to dunk a fiver in the vase - even though the new polymer banknotes are waterproof. Penny pitching: Your eight uses for copper coins 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z The previous one was the £5 note featuring reformer Elizabeth Fry, which was replaced by a Winston Churchill fiver - a decision that led to a campaign to redress the lack of balance. Old £10 notes out, new 10p coins in 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z The Americans had — count ’em up — one, two, three, four . . . five stones — a fiver that turned a tie game into a 10-5 U.S. advantage, a blowout. Perspective \| John Shuster was leveled by the sport he loved. Then he got back up, and won gold. 2018-02-24T05:00:00Z The fivers featured art by specialist micro-engraver Graham Short, whose previous work, a portrait of the Queen on a pinhead, sold for £100,000. What happened to the fivers 'worth £50,000'? 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z So what is the reality of making a small fortune from a fiver? Can a fiver really be worth £50k? 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z The Bank said polymer, also used with the new fiver, was more durable and cleaner than paper notes. Jane Austen £10 note enters circulation 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z This is so clearly a David and Goliath situation: an intensely rich global company on one side with some teenagers earning less than a fiver an hour on the other. All power to the McDonald’s strikers. Young people can’t live like this \| Suzanne Moore 2017-09-04T04:00:00Z It also makes the best budget glitter in the business and flogs it for less than a fiver. Sali Hughes: the 50 best ethical beauty buys 2017-07-15T04:00:00Z The Scottish fiver was found in a card sent in Scotland last Christmas. What happened to the fivers 'worth £50,000'? 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z Its 'old-fashioned' fivers are staying in use for now, despite the Bank of England's version being withdrawn at midnight on Friday night. No change as Northern Ireland paper £5 note stays in use - BBC News 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z The last was the £5 note featuring reformer Elizabeth Fry which was replaced by a Winston Churchill fiver. Jane Austen £10 note enters circulation 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z Millions of paper fivers are still in purses, wallets and piggy banks, despite the banknote ceasing to be legal tender by the weekend. Deadline to dig out old paper £5 notes - BBC News 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z Yes, there is a six-week waiting list and, yes, there are few bricks-and-mortar stores allowing you to try before you buy, but, at a little over a fiver, how much can one complain? Sali Hughes: the 50 best ethical beauty buys 2017-07-15T04:00:00Z The first time I went to Wimbledon, I slipped a steward a fiver to get on to the court where he was playing doubles. Ilie Nastase must be evicted from tennis for his behaviour at Fed Cup \| Kevin Mitchell 2017-04-22T04:00:00Z But only two of them produce fivers - the Ulster Bank and the Bank of Ireland. No change as Northern Ireland paper £5 note stays in use - BBC News 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z When the Bank of England issued the new plastic fiver last year, it promised it would be "much more durable". New fiver is not so indestructible - if you know how - BBC News 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z Finding a fiver for the electric meter, or making sure there’s food on the table at all, is a common battle across the country. A veg (or five) too far: why 10 portions a day is way too much to ask \| Kathleen Kerridge 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z "Then we received this note in the mail along with the fiver," he told BBC News NI. Mystery Irish woman gives £50k fiver to charity - BBC News 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z The new plastic fivers entered circulation in September. Bank of England urged to make new £5 note vegan-friendly 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z Trump is the leader of the free world and people can’t even stretch to a fiver for his tiny little doll shoes. Cheer corner: how to cope with the new world order (with kittens) 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z "To buy Mad Max on DVD is about a fiver, but a digital copy is £10 to £12 - that's more than double," he says. Why do film downloads cost more than DVDs? - BBC News 2016-11-05T04:00:00Z "When I started out it cost a fortune to trade, the spreads between buying and selling were huge. Now you can trade on your mobile phone for a fiver," says Mr Haynes. How the Big Bang changed the City of London forever - BBC News 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z However, it is Ireland's anonymous donor who is causing the biggest stir after she discovered the rare fiver - and handed it back. Mystery Irish woman gives £50k fiver to charity - BBC News 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z Business for Sterling succeeded because it found language and symbols – the Queen’s head on a fiver – that touched the nerves of millions of people. The man who brought you Brexit \| Sam Knight 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z But the man whose tweet kick-started this fundraising initiative, is still undecided about who he'll give his first fiver to. First fiver: How a single tweet kick-started a fundraising campaign - BBC News 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z The 52-year-old struck the jackpot after visiting a bank branch shortly after a delivery of new fivers - on the day after the launch date. 'I sold three new fivers for £460' on Ebay - BBC News 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z The new fiver, which enters circulation next week, is made from polymer, an altogether less romantic material than cotton paper. Notable & Quotable: Britain’s Plastic Banknote 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z The fiver, British slang for a £5 note, is expected to last about two and a half times as long as the current generation of paper notes. Britain Unveils New 5-Pound Note, in Bid to Foil Counterfeiters 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z But it's not all new and modern: The portrait on the new fiver depicts wartime leader Winston Churchill, still one of Britain's most revered statesmen. Britain's new money is plastic, easy to launder (in machine) 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z But it’s not all new and modern: The portrait on the new fiver depicts wartime leader Winston Churchill, still one of Britain’s most revered statesmen. Britain's new money is plastic, easy to launder (in machine) 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z After arriving at the bank just at the right time, Mr Scrase decided to put a set of three fivers with consecutive serial numbers on internet auction site Ebay. 'I sold three new fivers for £460' on Ebay - BBC News 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z The Bank of England is releasing its first £5 polymer note, but the Northern Bank was the first in the UK to issue a polymer fiver back in October 1999. Plastic note pioneer Northern Ireland beats Britain by 17 years - BBC News 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z The polymer note - which is much more durable than the old fiver - will initially only be available from a handful of banks and cash points. Most may have to wait a week for the new plastic fiver - BBC News 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z The new fiver is expected to last on average around five years, two-and-a-half times longer than a traditional note, making them more environmentally friendly and costing less over time, according to the Bank. Flash the plastic – Bank of England unveils untearable plastic £5 note 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z Leigh Gilbert stuck a fiver on as soon as the former Chelsea manager was hired. The madness of how Leicester turned from dreamers into dream-makers 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z The polymer note - which is much more durable than the old fiver - was delivered to banks over the course of a week. 'I sold three new fivers for £460' on Ebay - BBC News 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z The plastic fiver was the only type of note not replaced. Plastic note pioneer Northern Ireland beats Britain by 17 years - BBC News 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z The new fiver will depict Winston Churchill on the back. Most may have to wait a week for the new plastic fiver - BBC News 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z The Bank will start to withdraw the old paper fivers as soon as the new ones are circulated. Flash the plastic – Bank of England unveils untearable plastic £5 note 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z There are £63bn worth of notes in circulation in the UK: if you wanted to lop 1% off that, you could simply cancel half of all fivers without warning. Crime, terrorism and tax evasion: why banks are waging war on cash \| Paul Mason 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z The new fiver, which features the image of Sir Winston Churchill, is not the first plastic banknote to be seen in the UK. 'I sold three new fivers for £460' on Ebay - BBC News 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z The new Bank of England fiver will be followed by a £10 polymer note in summer 2017 and the £20 note by 2020. Plastic note pioneer Northern Ireland beats Britain by 17 years - BBC News 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z Like most papers, it carries the obligatory picture of the couple spraying champagne straight out of a bottle - which seems to be be a bit of a waste of that fiver. Newspaper headlines: Snooping bosses, Lotto winners and Bowie - BBC News 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z The security features on the new plastic fiver include: A see-through window featuring the Queen’s portrait. Flash the plastic – Bank of England unveils untearable plastic £5 note 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z A fiver deposited at the bank might buy you a £4.95 credit in your account. Crime, terrorism and tax evasion: why banks are waging war on cash \| Paul Mason 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z It was a fiver, but I bet the wad on one hand. In New Orleans, the walk of death has brought me to life (and a round of beer) 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z The fiver will soon feature the face of Sir Winston Churchill. Who would you put on a banknote? 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z A bit like a small child with a fiver burning a hole in its pocket, let loose in Aldi or Lidl... Pedestrian Liverpool fall short 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z Clubs are obsessed with “revenue”, nearly always at the expense of their “customers”: £50 for a ticket; £3.50 for a “match brochure”; a fiver for a gristle’n’bark pie. Should fans be refunded for poor performances? 2014-10-25T04:00:00Z The latter option, particularly the fragrant beef-and-coriander hua, is alone worth the additional fiver. Riverside Hotpot Cuisine: Fresh, flavorful DIY Chinese food with an Italian accent King barters, knocking them down then up again, settling on what sounded like $6 for the best of them, giving the others a fiver each. Don King takes old hustler act to Egypt to sell King of the Nile bout 2014-07-26T04:00:00Z There the same bottle sets you back a fiver. What is an unfair mark-up on a bottle of wine? 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z When I buy a pint, a packet of mints or anything really, I am often to be seen holding up a note and asking the seller: "Is this a fiver or a tenner?" The trouble blind people have with £1 coins 2014-03-19T11:44:59Z And that will only accelerate when Britain’s “fivers” and other notes join in beginning in 2016. Britain to Join Ranks of Nations Using Plastic Currency 2013-12-18T15:44:18Z "I make it up into little bunches and put a ribbon on and sell it mainly to young courting couples - I can sell a little bunch like that for a fiver," she said. Centuries-old romance with mistletoe 2013-12-10T07:51:46Z Only time will tell if shoppers spending a weekly fiver will spark the town's revival. Can a fiver save the high street? 2013-10-08T02:25:49Z The current Bank of England banknotes are made from cotton fibre and linen rag, with the average fiver only lasting for a year. Plastic banknotes 'ready for 2016' 2013-09-10T13:00:05Z The announcement from the Bank of England follows months of controversy, after their previous news that Elizabeth Fry is being axed from the fiver. Bank notes need more women 2013-07-27T23:07:00Z Caroline Criado-Perez started a battle on this principle: if the Bank of England wanted to take Elizabeth Fry, the only woman on any banknote, off the fiver, it had to replace her with another woman. The Jane Austen banknote victory shows young women are packing a punch 2013-07-24T14:54:45Z And that’s why fast food customers are seeing more and more of the fiver. In Fast Food, Five—As in $5—Is Now the Magic Number 2013-06-10T16:43:58Z "I don't think there are many people who would agree to that kind of arrangement, it is unreasonable to ask people to commit to that for a fiver." PSNI crime scene staff on strike 2013-06-04T16:28:54Z And every mile covered on crowded, traffic-laden central London streets is done on a bike he bought for a fiver. VIDEO: I cycle 22,000 miles a year 2013-05-28T23:01:01Z Tom Backner is a 15 man but does not object to fivers. Straight Sets: Quirks of the Game: How Tennis Got Its Scoring System 2013-05-24T23:53:56Z If you like a real challenge with your iOS games, then Frozen Synapse is a fiver well spent this week. 20 best iPhone and iPad apps this week 2013-05-20T11:28:47Z Two abstained, one refused "unless it's Blue Nun" and six chipped in a fiver each, despite collective misgivings that it made everyone look a bit desperate. Stuart Pearce's plea for Roy Hodgson's help needs backing 2013-05-18T21:00:16Z Andrew Graham said he "wouldn't pay a fiver for it". The Loop: Us and our spoons 2013-05-10T14:25:42Z As Marx lends Engel’s a fiver, the peer to peer capitalism starts. The ECB's rate cut: Better late than never 2013-05-02T16:22:15Z The current face of the fiver is Elizabeth Fry, who, among other things, worked to improve conditions in prisons in the early 1800s. New five pound note design revealed 2013-04-26T11:24:58Z I paid the extra fiver before I realised it wasn't an official site. The Google adverts helping to rip-off consumers 2013-02-02T07:01:09Z The rest of us must be content with fivers, tenners, twenties and fifties. Britain's £1m and £100m banknotes 2013-01-26T02:09:13Z That's uncomfortable since online shopping, at delivery charges of only a fiver, is clearly less profitable than trade conducted in supermarkets. Record-breaking Sainsbury's? Sort of 2013-01-09T14:40:31Z But nobody is consistently charging more than a fiver and the groceries themselves cost the same whether you turn up in person to wheel a trolley or have the goods delivered to your front door. Online shopping, gilt yields and Goldman 2013-01-04T17:59:00Z According to the latest Rasmussen poll that august body is now at fiver percent approval among the citizens, and they earned it. The Real Challenges for a New Defense Secretary 2013-01-02T18:05:22Z Festive cheer indeed, particularly so that when anything was paid over a fiver, half of that was donated to charity. Football League: your thoughts 2012-12-22T18:37:10Z I couldn't even afford a fiver a week. 'Bedroom tax' dilemma for tenants 2012-11-20T12:53:16Z A fiver on Burns featuring in some capacity against Fiji on 10 November is not the world's worst investment. Gloucester's Freddie Burns only three steps to rugby heaven and England 2012-09-28T12:14:00Z A good football costs anything from a fiver up. Olympics 2012: how to get involved in football 2012-08-17T14:09:08Z To get in the spirit, I put a fiver on the Argentines to win the double scull event in rowing on Saturday at 5 to 1 odds. How to Set Odds on the Olympics 2012-08-01T15:35:41Z It's the equivalent of about a fiver each for all Londoners. If Cameron can take a joke, a rebranded London could save the economy 2012-07-07T23:03:19Z That's the sort of soundbite that looks good on paper, but here I am, down to my last fiver…You need vision, says Burton. The secret to surviving a recession 2012-06-22T22:00:32Z Or… We found a packet of glow-in-the-dark stars on the internet for about a fiver. Space tourism: to infinity and beyond? 2012-06-16T23:05:23Z I think he still gets a fiver off his mum if he scores. St Helens 54-0 Bradford 2012-06-08T20:54:45Z Josh is a really good prospect and I think he still gets a fiver off his mum if he scores. St Helens 54-0 Bradford 2012-06-08T21:22:24Z A fiver for parking is just a backdoors way of putting £5 on the entry fee. Talking Horses: Latest news and best bets in our daily racing blog 2012-06-06T11:09:28Z And I don't mean a fiver for a pin badge. Talking Horses: The latest news from York and best bets in our daily horse racing blog 2012-05-17T10:41:38Z "Here, take this fiver with my compliments to Herr Rumpelstiltzkin and ask him to cut out that tune and give us the 'Dead March' instead." The Vanity Girl 2012-04-12T02:00:26.883Z Every penny of it: it would cost you or me, or any ordinary person, at least a fiver. A Bride from the Bush 2011-12-24T03:08:05.053Z After all, to banking execs, a fiver is just small change. Top 10 Brand Disasters of 2011 2011-12-14T12:20:43Z When the other day he sent me out to change his last fiver, and told me he'd have to make it do till quarter day, and there's still three weeks to that. A Woman Perfected 2011-12-02T03:00:24.420Z Pirates of the Caribbean, in which the majority of the audience chose to see the 2-D version, the answer is no—especially not for a so-so movie when an extra fiver is on the line. Summer Blockbuster Bust: Fewest Movie Tickets Sold Since 1997 2011-09-06T18:34:25Z It’ll be change for his fiver;” and I chuckled at my joke. The Outspan Tales of South Africa 2011-08-31T02:01:41.410Z “Major, I think these are worth a fiver.” An I.D.B. in South Africa 2011-08-31T02:01:33.733Z Well, of course, you must please yourself, old girl, but I shouldn’t let Evie do me out of a fiver if I were you. The Triumph of Jill 2011-08-31T02:01:25.060Z You see," he continued, five minutes after,—"you see, we're both of us pretty well cleared out; I've only got half a pony, and you haven't a couple of fivers left. Cecil Castlemaine's Gage, Lady Marabout's Troubles, and Other Stories 2011-08-25T02:00:30.323Z He cost me a fiver, but I had on a waistcoat lined with notes, and I'd more than five minutes in hand at Charing Cross. The Thousandth Woman 2011-08-15T02:00:25.383Z Last night he had changed his last fiver and paid his boys. The Outspan Tales of South Africa 2011-08-31T02:01:41.410Z "Don't mind him," said the Red Cap, soothingly; "he's invariably a conservative when he has the price of a dinner in his pocket, and he's just borrowed a fiver from me." The Red Room 2011-08-13T02:00:26.943Z As soon as they had fingered a fiver or two they began to give themselves such airs. Crying for the Light, Vol. 2 [of 3] or Fifty Years Ago 2011-07-23T02:00:11.327Z Stick a fiver on every race and you could have chomped through £200 before nightfall. Talking Horses 2011-07-15T10:05:57Z I spotted the fiver first but then I realised it was a million pound as well. Taxi driver's tip wins ?1m lotto 2011-07-13T16:33:13Z I’d almost bet a fiver that those two pre-Raphaelite angels will each be provided with an antique lachrymatory designed by their dear brother, and they’ll drop their tears therein and stopper them up. Eli's Children The Chronicles of an Unhappy Family 2011-07-08T02:00:20.557Z "Eight fivers," said Glen, handing him a note. The Sweep Winner 2011-06-24T02:00:21.067Z I sold the lot to old Pardy for a fiver and paid for my boots, deposit on shares and separator, and exes. in town out of it. From Chart House to Bush Hut Being the Record of a Sailor's 7 Years in the Queensland Bush 2011-06-08T02:00:16.290Z I saw the gleam in her eye when she stowed away your fiver. Poppy The Story of a South African Girl 2011-05-20T02:00:25.147Z If a fiver will be of any service to you, I hope you will do me the favour to accept it. The Child Wife 2011-04-21T02:00:50.050Z Socked him a fiver and threatened if he didn’t come through by Saturday night I’d have him up. The Bail Jumper 2011-04-16T02:00:19.103Z ‘Go down to the “Black Bull,” and get this fiver Mr. Palliser has given me changed,’ he said.” The Dust of Conflict 2011-04-14T02:01:04.343Z It is a "tenner," but in the darkness he cannot tell, and believing it only a "fiver," still thinks it too much; for it is all extra of his fare. Gwen Wynn 2011-04-09T02:00:12.230Z I have another fiver, I may as well go the whole hog and risk it. The Second String 2011-04-08T02:00:07.383Z Did he sign himself guaranteed as a tenner, worth two fivers, and 'twas afterwards found he wasn't? Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 105, July 8th 1893 2011-03-26T02:00:11.953Z Nine months Eighteen months Three years Which of these is on today's £5 notes, but was not on the original fiver issued in 1793? Midweek quiz 2011-03-23T04:01:04Z Do say: "I remember when a fiver was a living wage." Pass notes No 2,496: The fiver 2011-03-22T19:59:00Z "You shall have a pocket full of fivers when I prove my innocence," said Hector. Fast as the Wind A Novel 2011-03-22T02:00:19.407Z Yet, figures obtained by the BBC reveal that fewer than 3% of the UK's cash machines dispense fivers - even though the technology is available to do so. More of less 2011-03-16T23:53:52Z "Lucky is it! all fivers—not a tenner among them!" How to be Happy Though Married Being a Handbook to Marriage 2011-03-11T03:00:13.410Z Tap water is free and portable yet I was spending a fiver a day on bottled water. Britain's new entrepreneurs: young guns go for it 2011-03-06T00:11:44Z "The fiver should start to look as familiar – and as smart – as our other denominations," says the Bank of England. Pass notes No 2,496: The fiver 2011-03-22T19:59:00Z I 'm taking the 'fiver,' too, as it's to be our last meetin'. Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume II. 2011-02-18T03:00:19.343Z So why does our Pin bring crisp £10s and £20s when all we might want, need, or be able to afford, is a fiver? More of less 2011-03-16T23:53:52Z After all a fiver with a whole skin was better than nothing with a damaged one, and he had a very shrewd idea that that was how it would be with him if he remained. A Woman's Burden 2011-02-13T03:00:21.253Z It is a “tenner,” but in the darkness he cannot tell, and believing it only a “fiver,” still thinks it too much. Gwen Wynn A Romance of the Wye 2011-02-09T03:00:45.007Z “I’ll slip you a fiver to get me out of here.” Swamp Island 2011-01-28T03:00:22.400Z Loading the machine into his van, Faulds said: "We paid £200 for this, so we've got about a fiver off through beating VAT, and what's a fiver these days?" From Ely to Bradford, shoppers mass for one last splurge 2011-01-03T20:59:48Z Barclays, home of the first ever cash machine, says it has 600 ATMs in its network that dispense fivers, but has no current plans to increase the number. More of less 2011-03-16T23:53:52Z Bethune stared—"you wouldn't like to lend me a fiver, would you?" The Man with the Double Heart 2010-12-21T22:55:56.757Z As a gesture to the fans they should charge a maximum of a fiver and let kids in for free. Oval-ball overload is damaging the international game 2010-10-26T10:42:00Z If you can spare a fiver, please sponsor James Dart as he cycles a very long way for charity. Slovakia v Paraguay ? live! 2010-06-20T10:50:00Z I was so grateful that I handed the chap a fiver from my winnings, and told him I was Jock. McCracken wants to cut deal with BHA 2010-06-08T23:06:00Z Large retailers also agreed to give out more fivers in change, and together these would add a further 400 million £5 notes into circulation by 2012. More of less 2011-03-16T23:53:52Z There were no "perquisites" to be gleaned, save an occasional lonely "fiver" handed over for Bridge at her house. The Man with the Double Heart 2010-12-21T22:55:56.757Z So, it occurred to me that if I've just irrigated Africa and helped the polar bear for under a fiver, chances are it would cost much less to save Portsmouth. The Fiver 2010-05-14T14:53:00Z While you might not find Pucci perfection for a fiver on your first outing — or even your 10th — the hunt is half the fun. Sifting Worthy Vintage Clothes from the Discards 2010-05-06T02:42:00Z Just throw bunches of fivers at the punters, and see if they pick them up. Freebie push helps disgruntled punters over the Times paywall 2010-05-01T20:28:00Z The common arguments against packing more fivers into cash machines included the greater cost to companies that sorted and supplied banknotes. More of less 2011-03-16T23:53:52Z Now tell us you had a fiver on the treble at 329-1, and the drinks will be on you. Talking Horses: Today's best bets and live news on day three of the Punchestown Festival 2010-04-22T11:33:00Z "On one occasion in the past I told the driver where I lived, how far it was and he said that it was going to be a fiver," she told BBC Asian Network. 2010-01-20T10:21:00Z It's like watching your house burn down and then finding a crumpled fiver in your pyjama pocket. 2010-01-14T08:02:00Z I offered a fiver for the dog, because that’s what he’s worth. A Little World It says its ATMs dispensing £5 notes are clearly labelled, and give out at least two fivers in a combination of notes when customers withdraw between £40 and £100. More of less 2011-03-16T23:53:52Z I took you up, same as I did your bills, when you were so hard hit that you didn’t know where to go for a fiver. A Double Knot I dare say old Wilters would lend me a fiver, if I asked him.” Lady Maude's Mania "I could raise a couple of fivers, perhaps," said Pip. "Pip" A Romance of Youth You saw she had a fiver on the number? Witching Hill "It might be good for a fiver," murmured Bob. The Jolliest Term on Record A Story of School Life "And a fiver?" stipulated the chauffeur, avaricious but cautious. The Gay Adventure A Romance A fiver, tell him, if he gets a move on. The Haunted Pajamas He thinks his information is worth a prospective fiver. Hard Pressed Lay you a fiver it makes you sit up when I spring it on you. The Riddle of the Night Ten pounds to both Lampard and Clary, and six fivers among the rest, would postpone any violent pressure for a while. Plashers Mead A Novel "Right, sir," responded Glew, a creature to whom the word "fiver" was all that was necessary by way of present explanation. The Gay Adventure A Romance This fellow Bronson offered to lend me a fiver one day, and I got into the habit of asking him. Harper's Round Table, August 13, 1895 He doesn't deserve any consideration from me, but it will be worth a fiver later. Hard Pressed “Here, I may as well put the pot on as it seems to be something extra good, so you’ll have to make it two fivers, uncle, and two make ten.” Sir Hilton's Sin “Do you think I am going to buy the sanction of your society by a paltry fiver?” was my reply; and the agent went away faster than he came. Christopher Crayon's Recollections The Life and Times of the late James Ewing Ritchie as told by himself His young companion, who had won a fiver and was in a most beatific state, came and sat on his bunk whilst he undressed. Jacob's Ladder There I was, stranded in the Windy City, with a fiver. The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 6 August 1906 If you don't, send him a quid or two—or put it at a fiver. When Ghost Meets Ghost "Last time you came to see me at school Sir Tom gave me a fiver——" "A what?" Sir Tom In the days when I was starving in my native South," said the painter, "I used to paint portraits of tradesmen's wives for a fiver. General Bramble You don’t know what it feels like to be up to your eyes in debt and not knowing where to turn for a fiver. The Phantom Lover "I'll lay you a fiver," said I, "that when he has my offer you will never so much as hear from him again." The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 27, March 1893 An Illustrated Monthly "I'll take it," said May, handing a fiver to the auctioneer, which the farmer reluctantly covered. Australia Revenged But he's in a beastly humor now, and wouldn't send me a fiver to save my life. Lippincott's Magazine, September, 1885 Tom," he said at last, "you may have the fiver, but not because I'm afraid of anything you can say. Sunlight Patch Youth’s innings will come, and I bet a fiver—no, no, what am I thinking of?—I stake my honour that Youth’s middle stump gets bowled first ball.” The Tale of Timber Town Bruce bid a "fiver" for Thunderer, and was told he would fetch that for cats' meat, and then the game went on. Godfrey Marten, Undergraduate Well, I don't mind losing my fiver at any rate, for you certainly have earned it. Australia Revenged The odd 'fiver' will pay all the expenses, and if the Q.P. win the Cup, why all that will be mine. Scottish Football Reminiscences and Sketches Say, guv'nor, you couldn't let me have a fiver, could you? The New Tenant I’ll bet you a fiver—one of your own, if you like—that the rivers are in flood, and your people can’t get across. The Tale of Timber Town "Phillips says we shall have to pay a fiver each, what do you think?" Godfrey Marten, Undergraduate And now you refuse to give me even a fiver!” The Golden Face A Great 'Crook' Romance He begins with a note for fifty and goes on with fifty in fivers. Punch or the London Charivari, September 9, 1914 Well, I bet the little hussy a fiver. Dolly Reforming Herself A Comedy in Four Acts The English politician has often done that; though there is nothing to be said of such a fool, except that he has wasted a fiver. What I Saw in America I flatter myself that I combined frankness with good-nature in the right proportion, and in the end he was always satisfied with the nimble fiver. The Explorer Fivers were blossoms of a rare growth among us in those days, and I won’t swear that the table bristled with fivers. Old Familiar Faces "I'll trot him five miles out and home in a dog-cart, on any road out of Oxford, against any horse you can bring, for a fiver." Tom Brown at Oxford "I'd give a fiver for the sight of a good old White Ensign at the present moment," remarked the Flight-Sub anxiously. The Submarine Hunters A Story of the Naval Patrol Work in the Great War “Certainly,” says he, and drops a fiver into it before he passes it over. Odd Numbers Being Further Chronicles of Shorty McCabe Suffice it to say that one of my brothers, an excellent judge, offered me a fiver for the lot, and said that he expected to lose money by it. Marge Askinforit A fiver for a week or two in London? The Prodigal Father "Now, Brown, shall we divide the balance,—a fiver a piece?" Tom Brown at Oxford “Well—how would a couple o’ fivers be, now?” asked the anxious one. The Herapath Property Brown writes to me saying that he is taking the wife and kids to the seaside, and would I please pay him the fiver I owe him? A Dominie in Doubt Next thing is to ask 'em to sling Tommy a fiver over and above his wages—for saving of the boat and trade, mind, Joe. The Ebbing Of The Tide South Sea Stories - 1896 "You can have any bullock you like—the biggest in the lot—for a fiver—but, cash down." "Chinkie's Flat" 1904 The best patrons of racing were present, men who thoroughly enjoyed a match of this kind and were content with a fiver on the one they fancied. The Rider in Khaki A Novel This the Major, who is an Irishman, discovered only late in the evening, when he declared he would have "given a fiver" if he had only known it in the morning. A Boy's Voyage Round the World They're uncommon good for the throat; and a little quinine for the general system—that would put you as right as a fiver. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873 Now, I'd lay a fiver I could cut loose from here at reveille and shoot the passes before taps and never pull a stroke. Waring's Peril There’s a fiver under the papers of the top right hand drawer of bureau in smoke room. The Man Who Lost Himself Thrush seemed favorably impressed with Meason; no doubt an occasional fiver helped in this direction, for Tom was fond of money. The Rider in Khaki A Novel If another fiver would bring Selby-Harrison by the next steamer—Hullo! Lalage's Lovers But Cranbourne detached a fiver from its fellows and extended it temptingly. Men of Affairs And that leaves it forty cents shy of a fiver. Rival Pitchers of Oakdale "The heir to a million has been bought for a fiver." The Crooked House "Well, sir," he answered, "you know your own business best, but I wouldn't go along there for a fiver." Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile He could do what he liked with our bowling before, but now we have got to run nearly off our legs to fetch up fivers. Glyn Severn's Schooldays Cranbourne produced another fiver and pushed it into the man's hand. Men of Affairs To hear you talk, anybody might think you were ruined instead of merely getting hit for less than a fiver. Rival Pitchers of Oakdale So that if a chestnut was a fiver, and it beat a tenner, it became at one leap a fifteener. Dr. Jolliffe's Boys The school divided itself forthwith into two factions, calling themselves the “fivers” and “sixers.” Parkhurst Boys And Other Stories of School Life Never mind what it is; you must get it somehow, and you’ll get a fiver for it. Reginald Cruden A Tale of City Life He pulled a note case from his pocket and detached a fiver. Men of Affairs I returned to school covered with self-satisfaction, and virtuously clutching in my hand half-a-crown, the final change out of the “fiver.” Tom, Dick and Harry Hilary does not bet beyond the modest 'fiver' which a man would be thought unsociable if he did not risk on the horse that carries the country's colours. Round About a Great Estate Before I could turn and make towards him “Time!” was shouted from the bank; and so the Parkhurst Swimming Contest ended in a lamentable, though not disgraceful, defeat of the “fivers.” Parkhurst Boys And Other Stories of School Life "Or are you proposing to tip me a fiver?" Quisanté Your recognisances, Sir Roderick—for a fiver or so, if you ask me. Foe-Farrell His claim that a large leather wallet containing several fivers and a diamond ring broke the line and got away after a terrific struggle is being received with the usual caution. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, December 1, 1920 "I think I should like it in gold—a fiver at a time." The Admirable Tinker Child of the World Here, I’ll hand out a fiver and keep this for you until morning. Andy at Yale Or, The Great Quadrangle Mystery Mr. Poet, the idea is yours for a fiver. The Idiot "The moment I hear that the young lady has been at the house you shall have the fiver and a good tip beyond your fare." Enter Bridget Oh, went locoed clean out of his head, kicked my hat off the bed post, took out a fiver, said, 'Wayland, that's my last! The Freebooters of the Wilderness Here's a fiver to pay for your trouble, and another for the lad who brought you here. The Chief Legatee Well, we went along—to this pal of Jimmy's, and Jimmy borrowed a fiver. The Second Honeymoon "I'll bet you a fiver I can put more of these rings over than you can." On With Torchy "It's worth a fiver extra if you make good time," Lindsay told the driver. The Big-Town Round-Up "I assure you—" "Well, that's all right, now's your chance to lend me a fiver." Mike Fletcher A Novel The prompt answer was quite remarkable in its way: "The man what I bought it of receives just half as many sixpences for sixteen dozen dozen bananas as he gives bananas for a fiver." Amusements in Mathematics After all, I reflected, I could pay at the other end with a very small portion of the contents of the pocket-book, which I reckoned must contain at least half-a-dozen fivers. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-02-25 "Just say you let me have a fiver for him." On With Torchy The House was still obstinate, until Mr. Bonar Law declared that the Government would resign if they did not get their "fiver." Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-03-20 "I'll lend you a fiver or a tenner, if you like, Miss Slater." Mike Fletcher A Novel The common marbles used by boys everywhere are called mibs, fivers, commies, migs, megs, alleys, and dubs. Outdoor Sports and Games Swooped down like a hawk when he saw us an' waved his hand, laughin' fit to kill himself, an' dropped Johnny a fiver an' gee! Diane of the Green Van "Spendigo for a fiver!—and well found, by the tune of it," cried Sir Harry. The Ship of Stars As a "Sub," free from family ties, With constant "fivers" from the Pater, The Rupee I thought a goodly size, Though once its value was much greater. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, November 12, 1892 As they drove home, she slid her hand into his pocket like a cunning child and said: "Osborn, I want a fiver awf'ly badly; lend me one." Married Life The True Romance He said that his conscientious objections to betting were well known and life-long, but that even they would not stand in the way of his wife's putting a fiver on their dog Stanislaus. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, June 6, 1917 The landlord has lent me a fiver, so don't worry about me. Captivity I kicked at him under the seat of the carriage, but it was of no use, he persisted in his reckless offers of "laying fivers," and our united ignorance stood fatally revealed. The Great Lone Land A Narrative of Travel and Adventure in the North-West of America "This'll mean a fiver for you, my man," he heard one of them shout to the driver. Half A Chance He used to rave like a lunatic about his daughter; but I don't suppose he spent a fiver on her in his life. The Divine Fire The proper way to dispose of one is to slip it between a couple of genuine fivers when paying your taxi fare. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, January 29, 1919 He has just decided to put "a fiver" on him when he meets an acquaintance, who suggests a drink. The Pleasures of Ignorance He spoiled everything … my dress and my jacket too—it was quite a new one; I gave a fiver for it … and tore my kerchief from my head… Oh, Lord! Best Russian Short Stories There is a camera obscura placed in an ancient castle, which projects into the fiver, and which we admired extremely. A tour through some parts of France, Switzerland, Savoy, Germany and Belgium "Excuse me, Sir," he said, after looking through the document at my request; "but you see there is a fine of a fiver for wilfully giving false information." Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, April 11, 1891 I wouldn't be out of this for a fiver.' A Diversity of Creatures When he had got ten yards on his way towards Harold Etches and a fiver he felt something in his hand. The Card, a Story of Adventure in the Five Towns I didn't stick a brand-new fiver in the black-silk-dress pattern, knowing all the while she'd have it drunk up before she opened the creases out. Every Soul Hath Its Song "But—" "We may, as you say, look twice at a fiver," continued Edward Henry. The Regent Take back that fiver," said she, "an' come and eat with me. The Purple Heights I am quoting your own bill—I'll bet a fiver, too, that you drafted it. True Tilda "And I'll lay a fiver to a farthing that it's the right one!" Dead Men's Money I sent her a fiver, Marj, and a black silk, and a doll with real hair for the kid. Every Soul Hath Its Song He negligently dropped him five fivers, his share of the option's value. The Regent "Here is a fiver," replied the parson, softly. Bred in the Bone I hear some brute associate of yours out in the street asking you to lend him another 'fiver.' Colonel Quaritch, V.C. A Tale of Country Life Yet all he has to do is to pay his little fiver across the counter just as if he were buying a pound of tea. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, November 21, 1917 Touched me for a V once, and I am looking for that fiver yet. Frank Merriwell at Yale Mr. Marrier said nothing, but his eye met Edward Henry's, and in silence five fivers were meted out to Mr. Marrier also.... The Regent He is rather disappointed at getting so little change out of his "fiver." Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, October 24, 1917 Just at this moment I am hard up myself for a fiver. Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow He tipped the guards with brand new fivers, And sang little songs to the engine drivers. The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan So he is to have a fiver a week while he keeps me alive, and he's going to be married next month. Raffles, Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman "Well," said Edward Henry, "I'll bet you a fiver I do." The Regent Scaife could pick up very little information about him, except that he was a decent old fellow, who paid his bills regularly, and was always good for a fiver for a local charity. The Thirty-Nine Steps You'd better not have all the money on you; you had better open a small account in the post-office and draw it out a fiver at a time. Ann Veronica, a modern love story "I can lend you a fiver," she said. Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise I'll give you a fiver, and you can go away from Saturday to Monday. Of Human Bondage Our estimates had varied between thirty shillings and a fiver. Three Elephant Power and Other Stories When you wanted five hundred it was pretty rotten to be put off with a fiver. Mr. Waddington of Wyck "Bet you a fiver to a halfpenny it's the Pike," retorted Vickers. Scarhaven Keep Now, he'd run to a fiver—cash down—if some writing feller 'ud touch things up a bit for him, like. The Orange-Yellow Diamond Then some one lent him a fiver, and, by Jove, he turned the corner! The Mischief Maker If he could find a fleet youth with a reputedly fast pony, Bill would offer to "pull the little cuddy out of the sulky and run yer for a fiver." Three Elephant Power and Other Stories When the paper started, the proprietors—not the present ones—thought it would give the thing a boom if they had a football competition with a first prize of a fiver a week for life. A Man of Means You'd have thought a decent, faithful servant would have been delighted to oblige one in a little matter like that for a fiver. My Man Jeeves If he had only had a fiver on the horse—200 to 5! Esther Waters "I think," Julien said, "that I could guess the name of the man who lent him the fiver." The Mischief Maker "Well, in spite of your opinions I repeat I'd give a fiver to see that game Saturday." The Story of Sugar He was capable of borrowing a fiver from the Pope—or at least of attempting the feat; of pocketing some hungry widow's last mite and therewith purchasing a cigarette before her eyes. Alone Probably he doesn’t; he hasn’t got a million pounds to leave; he has, in fact, just written to you to ask you to lend him a fiver. If I May "But I don't mind losing that fiver, considering that we have gained four days on her." The Treasure of the Incas An' the chaps is tryin' to fix up a fiver to put some life into the thing. Children of the Bush If you'll stay with the Betty for a day or so, I'll give you this fiver to buy or hire another boat with until you can get your compensation out of our German friends. A Rogue by Compulsion Bet you a level fiver I'm married this year. The Postmaster's Daughter “Can you lend me a fiver?” he asked. Tomaso's Fortune and Other Stories Don't agitate yourself, my dear fellow; and as to betting, I would not risk more than a fiver. Smith and the Pharaohs, and other Tales I suppose the boys will soon be talking of getting `fivers' and `tenners' out of the `guvner' or `old man.' Children of the Bush "I have no possession in the world that would be worth a fiver to you," he said, coldly. The Masquerader Come, sirs,' says I, 'who'll give me a black eye; a fiver's all I ask.' The Broad Highway And—er—by the way, old man—the fact is, just for the moment, I'm frightfully—You haven't such a thing as a fiver anywhere about, have you? The Intrusion of Jimmy Dad will be getting another fiver any day. Dear Brutus "You could stake your last fiver on it, he is!" Australia Felix I suppose we must give him a fiver. Pygmalion "Oh, don't get crackly just because you're a Buffalo bill," says the fiver. The Trimmed Lamp, and other Stories of the Four Million Great Scott, I'll have a fiver each way on both those. The Intrusion of Jimmy You can't think how exciting it is when the fiver comes in; we dance and then we run out and buy chops. Dear Brutus "You gather up all the pebbles in the bed of the fiver and we'll make a big wail on the bank to defend you." The King of Ireland's Son Ah, now you have lost a fiver altogether—how queer! A Laodicean : a Story of To-day I expected his response would be a flood of tears, and that in the end I should have to fork out a fiver. Idle Ideas in 1905 But, Johnny, if you can let me have one more fiver now I have made arrangements with Amelia how I'm to pay you off by thirty shillings a month,—as I get my salary. The Last Chronicle of Barset I shall have a fiver on him for luck. The Country House The night's coming on and the fiver shows no sign of turning back. The King of Ireland's Son "Yes, there it is, squire—ten fivers and your own note." Stories By English Authors: Italy (Selected by Scribners) And they can generally sell them for a fiver. All Roads Lead to Calvary "I'll bet a fiver that beyond that you know nothing about it." The Prime Minister Freddie, who was sitting next to me, took me in fivers. Something New The Scholar bought Herr Gustav's white shirt for a fiver, threatening to murder its owner if he did not render it up. Stories by English Authors: Africa (Selected by Scribners) Never mind," he said, with a short laugh, "I meant to give you a fiver, but it don't make much odds. A Millionaire of Yesterday "You'd lose your fiver," said Michael, speaking gravely out of the gloom. Manalive It put him into a better temper than ever, and he said at length: 'I suppose a fiver wouldn't be much use?—For a month, you say?—I might manage a fiver, I think.' New Grub Street But I’m always ready to back my opinion on a matter of fowls, and I have a fiver on it that the bird I ate is country bred.” The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes "An odd fiver for a kindness—" "Shut up!" Kingdom of the Blind We printed one fiver off that plate—and then we knew enough to quit. The Adventures of Jimmie Dale It was an open race, and every man that had a note or a fiver laid it out on one horse or another. Robbery under Arms; a story of life and adventure in the bush and in the Australian goldfields But on no account if——' 'No, no; I could manage a fiver, for a month. New Grub Street “Well, then, you’ve lost your fiver, for it’s town bred,” snapped the salesman. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes I had intended to slip a fiver into his hand, but for all his surprise, he was too quick for me. Moon-Face I got a customer for those fivers—fifteen thousand dollars for all we can turn out to-night. The Adventures of Jimmie Dale Don't you remember that chestnut Sir Henry colt that no one else could ride, and I backed you not to get thrown, and won a fiver? Robbery under Arms; a story of life and adventure in the bush and in the Australian goldfields You remember that fiver you gave me the time I didn’t have carfare? Martin Eden The Bushmen returned to the shanty as soon as the coach was out of sight, and proceeded to 'knock down' the fiver**. Joe Wilson and His Mates
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