Example sentences of "worth a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Supposed to be worth a million pounds , ’ his voice sank to a whisper . |
| 2 | Swindon say as a player he is worth a million pounds , and they should be compensated accordingly . |
| 3 | The building is now worth a million times its original sale price ! |
| 4 | I once saw a painted picture of something like it in the Rockefeller Centre — must have been worth a million dollars or more — but we never had anything like that , so that mountain was my art , something beautiful and eternal . |
| 5 | ‘ Six million if you do n't mind , ’ was Christy Turlington 's reply to designer Valentino 's suggestion that she was worth a million dollars . |
| 6 | The Wall Street Journal once reported a mainframe customer 's remark that the Amdahl coffee cup on his desk might look ordinary but it was in fact worth a million dollars , the size of IBM 's concession on a hotly contested deal . |
| 7 | ‘ Now that it 's illegal , ’ he said , coughing , ‘ it 's worth a thousand times what it used to fetch . |
| 8 | Under Mary , the Crown set up a sliding scale of military liability , so that poorer members of the community were obliged to supply a suit of armour , spear and bow and arrow , while those worth a thousand pounds or more were expected to provide sixteen horses , sixty suits of armour , fifty helmets , forty pikes , thirty long-bows , twenty bills , and twenty arquebuses . |
| 9 | ‘ Worth a thousand pounds to you . ’ |
| 10 | If a picture is worth a thousand words , it might take a thousand words to describe a picture . |
| 11 | ‘ A picture is worth a thousand words ’ precisely because it is a part of a complex , usually unconscious , web of references . |
| 12 | The old adage that a picture is worth a thousand words is small consolation to an audience which ca n't hear any of them . |
| 13 | Though a picture may sometimes be worth a thousand words , this may not be true when it comes to drawing out facts from figures . |
| 14 | I know they say a picture 's worth a thousand words ( and James would no doubt agree with you ) , but I think we 'll keep things as they are for the moment . |
| 15 | A picture is worth a thousand words and a single graph can often lead to a rule of thumb . |
| 16 | Each one is worth a thousand words , but a pack of six costs only £2.85 . |
| 17 | A picture may be worth a thousand words but you 'll still need some text to explain what the pictures are about ! |
| 18 | Although a picture may be worth a thousand words the reader still needs to know what the picture relates to . |
| 19 | I 'm sure that a picture is worth a thousand words , and so the screenshots can probably tell you much more than I have space for . |
| 20 | The old saying ’ a picture is worth a thousand words ’ is very true when it comes to mapping a water . |
| 21 | A picture as they say is worth a thousand words and so it was that on the afternoon unemployment broke through the three million barrier I chanced a glimpse of the private feelings of John Major . |
| 22 | So th , the , this , you know , this main thing of really , a picture 's worth a thousand words , and the more you can block out time in this way , and protect yourself , er , the better your overall time management will be . |
| 23 | Following the adage that ‘ a picture is worth a thousand words ’ one might suppose that graphical methods would provide an exceptionally useful form of output . |
| 24 | A PICTURE IS WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS |
| 25 | But basically a gilt has got a fixed rate of , of value at the end and the beginning , so it 's worth a hundred pounds day one , a hundred pounds day you know whatever , h how many days it 's in force , if it 's a five year gilt , it 's worth a hundred , a hundred pounds then . |
| 26 | And they 're each worth a hundred pounds . |
| 27 | There are few things better than the reluctant black smile : worth a hundred dollars . |
| 28 | ‘ Worth a few pennies , sir ? ’ suggested Lewis as they crunched their way to the front door . |
| 29 | Well I mean that 'll that might be worth a few marks . |
| 30 | It 's worth a few days observation . ’ |