Example sentences of "[num] [noun] ' worth " in BNC.
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| 1 | Forty pounds ' worth . |
| 2 | Cut off the two inches , or better still four , add forty quids ' worth of ‘ body wave ’ and it 's ‘ My word , you do look well . |
| 3 | A at a guess I would think they would probably give you about three to six months ' worth of pay as compensation , if |
| 4 | The large aeroplane manufacturers have as much as 10 years ' worth of future work on their order books , and an active market has developed among airlines and leasing companies for delivery slots . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | could of put in , could of put in there , six inches ' worth in there |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | One was the disk erm , which actually held about erm , three hours ' worth of conversations straight from the corpus er banking , er composition . |
| 9 | Nearly three months ' worth of them — nothing before that — then , as soon as exams began : every single night I had them , and every single morning I wrote them down . |
| 10 | About three lines ' worth . |
| 11 | By July 1989 it was estimated that the country possessed foreign exchange sufficient only to cover three weeks ' worth of imports . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | As far as grants are concerned , students who apply for a place are almost certain to have used at least three years ' worth of their local authority grant entitlement while studying at university or polytechnic , and may only be eligible for a further one-year entitlement if they have been accepted at a drama school . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ( 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 . ) |
| 16 | Based on current values , up to 1,000,000 forints ' worth of land and 200,000 forints ' worth of other property ( houses , hotels , factories , etc. ) would be compensated in full , with compensation above those limits being awarded against real values on a sliding scale ; the upper limit for awards per claimant was set at 5,000,000 forints ( US$1.00=76.6553 forints as at April 29 , 1991 ) . |
| 17 | By that time , the band will have three albums ' worth of material they 'll have never played live . |
| 18 | plus twenty eight pounds ' worth |
| 19 | Nearly fifty pounds ' worth , I 've added them up . |
| 20 | then if you went again in the autumn you you ge you get er fifty pounds ' worth of vouchers or something , yo you go half price . |
| 21 | She had to buy fifty pounds ' worth . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | In its way , it was as funny and arresting as anything from television , but it lacks the scale and presence of a few hundred thousand pounds ' worth of television commercial . |
| 24 | You are now in an unusually powerful position : you have a strong , professional team behind you , and a good few thousand pounds ' worth of buying power in your pocket . |
| 25 | Sir Alexander , Professor of Medicine at the King 's College , revealed that in peacetime Aberdeen exported a hundred thousand pounds ' worth of stockings a year , and in wartime a hundred and seventy thousand . |
| 26 | Now spreading it over a year means that the project administration jumps dramatically , and there 's about four , five thousand pounds ' worth in there . |
| 27 | I 've actually put in for twenty thousand pounds ' worth of grants at this point , however , let's see whether I 'm fortunate to achieve that . |
| 28 | And then , on the bottom of page sixteen and through on to seventeen is addressing the point that , also within the guideline , we have been asked , we 've been asked as a Committee , to look at the implications of finding up to a further two hundred and fifty thousand pounds ' worth of reductions . |
| 29 | Unfortunately it would appear , or perhaps fortunately , depending on , on one 's views , erm , the policy has always been quite clear , that we should treat them in exactly the same way as we treat the independent sector , and that there would be an arm 's length independent inspection , that has now been made explicitly clear that that is the requirement , and therefore you would have to withdraw that and say that if there is a requirement to find a further two hundred and fifty thousand pounds ' worth of savings , we will have to go and identify another area rather than that . |
| 30 | But the provisional guid the guideline which was set by Policy and Resources in the first instance , was just for this Committee to identify seventy thousand pounds ' worth of reductions . |