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Usage examples of tenners.

I expected crinkled quids in old tennis shorts, fivers in the pockets of jeans, tenners under the sofa cushion, twenties in the jar on the shelf.

Four tenners after their wedding day, the nephew fell from the loft of one of his uncle’s warehouses and broke his neck.

He was used to thinking in periods of days or tenners, not in decades and centuries.

Odirin Nan Odim, referred to by all his kin as Odo, was a year and six tenners older than Eedap Mun Odim.

Increasingly, as the tenners went by, his mind was filled with loathing for those other prisoners-some perhaps sick or even dead who did not pull with a whole heart.

There were calendars counting down the final years, the figures growing larger as the tenners shrank.

Keith had his fistfuls of fivers, his furled tenners and folded fifties.

It seemed to me at the time a ridiculous thing to do, but I took the two flat blocks of tenners out of the envelope, and photographed them as well.

Anyway, Kraye paid him the second installment in tenners, from one of the blocks you photographed in his case.

After the dinner was over, however, he beat a discreet retreat, taking a bottle of brandy over to that other Wembley stadium, home of the Horse of the Year Show, where he persuaded an obliging groundsman with a couple of tenners to put on the lights.

When it arrived, he put down a stack of crisp tenners, slapped on his most charming smile, and said, "I beg your pardon, but do you think you could help me out with a small matter of—?