Example sentences of "were worth [n mass] " in BNC.

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No	Sentence
1	They were worth £250 .
2	They struck in Milbank Road where the pots were worth £50 and in Stanhope Road , where they were worth £100 , on Wednesday afternoon .
3	At the top of the scale only seven Buckinghamshire parsons were worth £40 or more , compared with a good fifth of the total in Norfolk , where no fewer than four reached three figures .
4	Last year , Britain 's clothing exports were worth £2 billion ( 20 per cent up on 1989 's figures ) .
5	These contracts were worth $75 million each .
6	They struck in Milbank Road where the pots were worth £50 and in Stanhope Road , where they were worth £100 , on Wednesday afternoon .
7	Shop fittings which were worth £3,000 and had been bought at an auction by Transom Trading for only £1,500 prior to opening the shop in August 1991 .
8	The bad news certainly outweighs the good , since Japan 's exports were worth ¥43 trillion ( $140 billion ) last year , which was 46% more than its imports .
9	‘ I was n't insured and the things stolen were worth £150,000 .
10	David Lynch , who worked at the Passport Office , admitted his part in a racket to slip the documents on to the black market where they were worth £40,000 each .
11	In contrast the absentee landowners alone were worth £33 , of which two-thirds belonged to a single leading proprietor , Lady St Leger ; the inhabitants totalled nearly £8 more .
12	By 1927 , Capone 's business operations were worth $60 million .
13	The company is second in exports only to British Aerospace , which were worth £3.1bn last year .
14	Presumably men of modest means would scarcely have qualified , but only 502 were worth £20 and upwards , and 406 had £40 or more , a figure that might be regarded as a reasonable minimum for a substantial businessman .
15	The packages were worth £600 million each .
16	IN 1992 SHIPMENTS TO 190 COUNTRIES WERE WORTH £1,958 MILLION — UP SEVEN PER CENT .

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