Now they are two a penny - or rather they were until 1990.

Campaigns are two a penny these days: it's impossible to keep track of them all.

The technically accomplished buggers are two a penny in any period.

There, residential and nursing homes are two a penny.

Deans and professors were two a penny: I never did discover how so many people had been bullied into coming.

Apparently, princes were two a penny in Hungary.

Manias, yes; but they are two a penny.

I tell you saints and seers are two a penny just lately, better turn off at this next traffic signals."

"Revolutionaries are two a penny these days.

As an ex-Harvard dealing director once pointed out,"Dealers are two a penny nowadays!

"Thin ones are two a penny."

Copenhagen may be a gourmet destination where Michelin star restaurants are two a penny, but you won't find eating out is cheap here.

Flickscreen arcade adventures seem to be two a penny on the C64, and really have to be something special to stand out.

The Highlands and Islands were vastly more populated then and 'characters' must have been two a penny.

"We--that is, clerks and suchlike--are two a penny.

"I dare say murders are two a penny in Majorca and - " "Iviza, not Majorca."

He couldn't place the house, couldn't see it in his mind's eye, but big country houses were two a penny round here, he'd probably know it when he saw it.

Conspiracy theories are two a penny wherever you look, but I'm reminded of the simple two-word introduction to a lecture that Paul Foot made some time ago: "Governments lie."

They are two a penny here and if you like i could put you in touch with a local kitchenware shop that sells all manner of useful crockery as well as other things.

Unfortunately for them, Daybreakers arrives in cinemas at a time when movies about undead creatures of the night are two a penny, and the critics reckon this one is a little too clunky to stand out.

Gunfire erupted from a window high above them, but it was only a bass player getting shot for playing the wrong riff three times in a row, and bass players are two a penny in Han Dold City.

Stately homes may be two a penny in England, but you'll have to try pretty hard to find one as breathtakingly stately as Castle Howard, a work of theatrical grandeur and audacity set in the rolling Howardian Hills.

At the Grand, magistrates are two a penny, bankers of the sort who never lent Maxwell a farthing can be seen sipping sherry, chairmen of publicly quoted companies compare salaries, and retired officers of field rank renew old NATO friendships.