Example sentences of "three [noun pl] ' worth " in BNC.
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| 1 | One was the disk erm , which actually held about erm , three hours ' worth of conversations straight from the corpus er banking , er composition . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | About three lines ' worth . |
| 4 | By July 1989 it was estimated that the country possessed foreign exchange sufficient only to cover three weeks ' worth of imports . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ( 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 . ) |
| 9 | By that time , the band will have three albums ' worth of material they 'll have never played live . |