Example sentences of "to [be] worth [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 To be worth two murders in eight days , Ascot had to be more than a mere gambling scam .
2 The try is to be worth five points while the drop goal will count for two points .
3 Even when it was declared to be worth twenty-one shillings in 1717 it was undervalued ; silver coins were exported to India where their value was still high , or to Amsterdam where they could be melted down and exchanged for gold , and Britain moved inadvertently to a gold standard .
4 Hell Hound on my Trail is given E4 5c and is said to be worth three stars .
5 Roger , Lord North , admitted that as a subsidy commissioner he had let men off lightly in Cambridgeshire : everyone was known to be worth ten times his assessment in goods and six times in land ; some were worth twenty or thirty times their assessments .
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