Example sentences of "worth [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The experience to be gathered from books , though often valuable , is but of the nature of learning ; whereas the experience gained from actual life is of the nature of wisdom ; and a small store of the latter is worth vastly more than a stock of the former . ’ |
| 2 | National 's £50m to £90m price tag will make McEnhill and finance director Adam Mills paper millionaires worth somewhere between £5m and £9m apiece . |
| 3 | If nationalized industries previously had bad performances , they would have been worth little had they been sold at that stage . |
| 4 | Most business executives will find the arbitrary cutoff point of £184 means that state redundancy pay is worth rather less than they might have hoped or expected . |
| 5 | At the height of his career his whole estate , including his patrimony , was probably worth rather more than £1,300 a year . |
| 6 | For British Telecom and British Gas , where the perks took the form of discounts on quarterly bills , they were worth only 6.9 per cent and 7.4 per cent respectively . |
| 7 | Because southern prices rose faster than those in the regions in the mid-1980s , for instance , by last year an average house in Yorkshire and Humberside , which in 1983 had been worth 69 per cent of a similar one in London , was worth only 40 per cent of one in the capital . |
| 8 | The president 's disappointing administrative reform will pare off public spending worth only 0.5% of GDP . |
| 9 | If he had put a second £100 into the FT-SE index each time he bought from the state , the resulting shares would now be worth only a little over a third more than he paid . |
| 10 | This was only a modest puff of inflation by subsequent standards : by 1974 the 1950 pound would have been worth only one-third of a pound . |
| 11 | That was the 1988 development value but the state of London 's housing market means that it is probably worth only half that today — and Chelsea is naturally reluctant to pay . |
| 12 | Assume after the first transaction the dollar depreciates ( DM appreciates ) and was worth only DM 3.88–3.92 , then if the second customer once again approached the bank with DM40,200 and requested dollars he would receive $10,255 ( DM40,200 ÷ DM3.92 ) . |
| 13 | But the scholarship was worth only £100 and , though his school plundered its scarce resources to add £20 , it was not enough for the boy to support himself at Cambridge . |
| 14 | For example , with 10 per cent inflation , a sum of £100 saved in cash at the start of a year is worth only £100/1.1 = £90.91 at the end of the year . |
| 15 | Based on inflation over the same period , my £10 is now worth only Pounds 6.50 . |
| 16 | The cannabis was worth only £4.50 and would have made no more than six cigarettes . |
| 17 | Although linking pensions to prices rather than incomes may not produce a great difference in one year , after twenty-five years , assuming incomes rise by 2 per cent per annum faster than prices , the price-linked pension will be worth only approximately 60 per cent of the earnings-linked pension . |
| 18 | The Queen is worth only £100 million after state assets are deducted from the Crown 's £5 billion fortune , according to Business Age magazine . |
| 19 | His haulage business went bust and he owes £120,000 on a semi in New Denham , Bucks , now worth only £80,000 . |
| 20 | Shame it 's in Mexican pesos worth only £160 |
| 21 | Troubled Telecom Eireann has abandoned a plan to build a new headquarters in Ballsbridge , Dublin , and the decision may cost the company more than £6m ; it bought the site for £9.4m in 1990 , but it is now worth only around £5m ; the company may also be required to pay for a government investigation into the purchase , which is also under scrutiny from the Fraud Office . |
| 22 | In the absence of precise definition , 20s. might be taken as marking the dividing line between husbandmen and labourers , were it not that at Long Preston Edmund Clarke ( nil ) was stated to be servant to Thomas Squyer , who was worth only 6s. 8d . |
| 23 | In particular , Anthony Talbot of Alton was worth only one mark , though his income was ten . |
| 24 | Big undertakings like Sheffield and Worth only required twenty or thirty men each , and of course for just a few weeks at a time . |
| 25 | He remains a major shareholder , but his shares are worth only a fraction of their '84 value . |
| 26 | It is often complained of by many that a meeting will take five minutes to agree the expenditure of ten million and two hours to debate a minor item worth only a few thousand . |
| 27 | When he began farming on his own account in 1778 he found an open and almost barren country , much of it worth only five shillings an acre . |
| 28 | Let us further assume that the shares were and are worth only £50,000 . |
| 29 | Old Higging ( ‘ best Angel and Bride Cakes in the West Riding ’ ) worth only half of what had been expected — a failure at the time of his possible greatest triumph . |
| 30 | For example , in 1978 a Caratacus silver unit of the Atrebates tribe ( 35–40 AD ) was valued at £2,500 ; at present the same coin would be worth only around £250 and its value is still falling . |