Example sentences of "[unc] worth " in BNC.
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| 1 | It shows Knighton 's worth as between £3.2m and £12.4m , with the main asset the St David 's Preparatory School in Huddersfield , with a value of £2m to £5m . |
| 2 | Many visitors to Luanda leave with the image of a dead city , where large glass windows in state-run shops reveal mostly empty shelves , where sewage too often runs through the streets — there 's a cholera epidemic now — where the state has had to hire a private firm which imported Filipino lorry drivers to clean up a decade 's worth of rubbish . |
| 3 | How can you gauge what a market 's worth ? |
| 4 | ‘ If I know you I 'd warrant he was given his money 's worth , ’ McQuaid laughed gently and when Moran did n't answer he added , ‘ The young will have their way , Michael . |
| 5 | Their husbands think that it is natural for a wife to go out and flaunt her husband 's prosperity and her family 's worth — that is their tiny horizon . |
| 6 | Never mind what the victim 's life 's worth . |
| 7 | I knew I was meant to get an hour 's worth of broadcastable material . |
| 8 | It does n't drag on beyond bedtime but you feel you had your money 's worth . |
| 9 | The nation now has a quarter of a century 's worth of anti-poverty experiments to draw on . |
| 10 | ‘ Maintained ’ means that the deceased was making a substantial contribution in money or money 's worth towards the reasonable needs of the applicant , and he did not receive full valuable consideration for this : thus food and shelter are included in the definition . |
| 11 | Slobs like me who iron only when they are forced to , and then only the bits that show , stand to recoup their investment after less than a year 's worth of shirts . |
| 12 | We know we 're going a lot further for a tenner 's worth of fuel , and we 're delighted , ’ he says . |
| 13 | He had certainly got his money 's worth . |
| 14 | In the nursing home , Cameron III wrote an album 's worth of his very best material , railing against the darkness that was crowding in on him . |
| 15 | The tendency to judge a woman 's worth , or for her to judge her own worth , by her appearance , was by no means new . |
| 16 | Unlike Swift , Leapor chooses to affirm Dorinda 's worth . |
| 17 | He has not got a farthing 's worth of method . |
| 18 | But his real reason was that he was blind ; he was crippled in a land where a man 's worth was judged mainly by his physical ability . |
| 19 | I reckoned about two thousand quid 's worth at least . ’ |
| 20 | He certainly got his money 's worth , that young man . |
| 21 | Reading between the lines , what they meant was that they were not going to train people who might keel over and die before the CAB had had its money 's worth . |
| 22 | His greatest concern was that I should be strong and brave , good at games , good at work , and that he should get his money 's worth from my education . |
| 23 | If you calculate the cost of people 's salaries , travelling expenses involved in getting to and from the meeting place etc it can come to a frightening figure per hour 's worth of meeting . |
| 24 | His hardworking , selfless style rarely caught the attention of the media but Palace patrons of the time thoroughly appreciated Tony 's worth . |
| 25 | At the end of last year , the FDA was persuaded that the Utah Medical Center had evolved a plastic and aluminium ‘ heart ’ ( known as the Jarvik 7 , after its designer , Dr Robert Jarvik ) which stood a chance of sustaining some kind of life , and permission was given for a series of seven experiments , employing the new toy , after which the instrument 's worth was to be reviewed . |
| 26 | Donors have got their money 's worth in the relatively simple transactions of giving aid , and making sure that their own firms got the orders to build the dams . |
| 27 | Others said that their driving was risky because friends and , to a lesser extent , the public , police and insurance companies labelled him as ‘ high risk ’ and charged him a high premium , he might as well get his money 's worth . |
| 28 | McKeich was also aware of his animal 's worth and refused to sell , rejecting a second , improved offer a few weeks later . |
| 29 | It went on to make two historic recommendations : that the Institution should give more overt support to the Society of Surveying Technicians , formed in 1970 by the General Council of the RICS , pointing out that the notion that the profession needed persons with technical qualification to ‘ come in at the bottom ’ and stay there was insensitive to human aspirations and naïve in its recognition of the Society 's worth ; and that practitioners should henceforth be required to undertake structured Continuing Professional Development ( CPD ) — a courageous and necessary proposal ( see below ) . |
| 30 | Having demonstrated their ability to cope with difficult users , ensure that such people 's worth is made known — and is rewarded . |