Example sentences of "[noun pl] ' worth " in BNC.
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| 31 | However , even if 10 years ' worth of rights from an old company pension scheme are commuted to no more than two years ' worth in your new one , it could still be worth accepting , particularly if your new job is likely to produce rapid pay rises . |
| 32 | As your pension is normally ultimately based on the size of your salary when you retire , the two years ' worth of added rights could still be worth a tidy amount . |
| 33 | The Uranium Institute , based in London , has calculated that the 816 tonnes of HEU that might be released from American and Soviet disarmament could take the place of 166,000 tonnes of natural uranium , roughly three years ' worth of world demand . |
| 34 | ( Research and development split between the two lines — currently 50–50 — will soon tip the balance in favour of AViiON , since three years ' worth of products are expected to be squeezed out of the last round of investment in the proprietary line . ) |
| 35 | A years ' worth of ZZAP ! and freebies too — just twenty-four pounds is the price to you ( guv'nor ) . |
| 36 | The Whitney continues its round robin of mid-career retrospectives for media artists with ‘ Richard Prince ’ , an eighty-five work survey of fifteen years ' worth of work by the forty-three-year-old ‘ appropriationist ’ . |
| 37 | Try to stick to the subject of the row rather than bringing up 25 years ' worth of misdemeanours . |
| 38 | I spent every last penny of my hoarded misery that night , blew eighteen years ' worth on one split second , and it felt better than anyone who is not a fan can ever be expected to understand . |
| 39 | The union was also left virtually bankrupt , having paid out in five weeks ' strike pay nearly two years ' worth of subscriptions . |
| 40 | Some limited home responsibilities protection was introduced in April 1978 in order to help women in this position , but in order to qualify for a full pension they still require twenty years ' worth of contributions or credits . |
| 41 | In England , prior to 1983 , local authorities could receive up to 3 years ' worth of joint finance money . |
| 42 | They received this 3 years ' worth of money to set up their new community facilities . |
| 43 | Twenty years ' worth . |
| 44 | The floods destroyed the crop completely and the debt is equivalent to four years ' worth of rice crop . |
| 45 | Is it not the case that a similar figure would result from calculating seven years ' worth of tax relief for private medical insurance ? |
| 46 | Is it not also the case that the cost of one or perhaps two years ' worth of the administrative introduction of the NHS changes for the internal market would again result in the same figure ? |
| 47 | We 're taking people on in the copy group and we 've got twenty years ' worth of adverts . |
| 48 | And essentially you can get two years ' worth of records in , in a storage binder . |
| 49 | We are now left with seven years ' worth of data containing only seasonal and residual effects . |
| 50 | The best thing to do would be to put away five years ' worth of umm fees in a high interest building society account and just have a direct debit taken out every term and the fees to go out would n't it . |
| 51 | It is not generally realised what a tiny percentage of our current dollar bill would be sufficient to buy another 100,000 houses ' worth of dollar timber . |
| 52 | About 20 minutes ' worth of space-age special effects were created for the 1984 movie The Last Starfighter . |
| 53 | The First Deputy Prime Minister 's husband replied in his standard way , larding his lengthy answer with the typical verbiage of the langue de bois : ‘ I will answer you starting with a more general presentation of the mechanism of societal government , ’ he began , before launching himself on about ten minutes ' worth of the following : ‘ A principle of collective leadership operates in the Romanian socialist society … |
| 54 | Once ready , you 'll have enough steam power for up to 50 minutes ' worth of cleaning . |
| 55 | About 50 football pitches ' worth of trees from South America |
| 56 | It is not available in the first year of the policy and in the second year only £250 — about two hours ' worth for a top London matrimonial lawyer -will be met for each party . |
| 57 | At Georgetown , Toyota keeps three days ' worth of stocks of imported parts , compared with 1.5 days ' worth of American parts — or four hours ' worth at its Japanese plants . |
| 58 | Clients who are assessed as needing a home cleaning service receive vouchers once a month , each representing one or two hours ' worth of cleaning . |
| 59 | I confirm that Councillor Young came to the Department in July with five hours ' worth of videos showing how Derbyshire had been running down its schools . |
| 60 | One was the disk erm , which actually held about erm , three hours ' worth of conversations straight from the corpus er banking , er composition . |