Example sentences of "been worth " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Sandinistas recognise that perestroika will bring changes in their relationship with Moscow , which has in recent years been worth around £625m annually , according to European diplomats . |
| 2 | If the bonus had risen in line with prices since its introduction in 1972 , it would have been worth £48.85 last Christmas . |
| 3 | Because southern prices rose faster than those in the regions in the mid-1980s , for instance , by last year an average house in Yorkshire and Humberside , which in 1983 had been worth 69 per cent of a similar one in London , was worth only 40 per cent of one in the capital . |
| 4 | The terms of exchange between manufacturers and agricultural produce moved swiftly to the disadvantage of the towns ; a pair of boots which in 1913 had been worth 283lb. of rye flour was worth as little as 133lb. by May 1922 . |
| 5 | If either of these sentences were true , the story would not have been worth telling , since the conversion would have been a purely fanciful affair which bore no relevance to Lewis at the deepest levels of his being . |
| 6 | ‘ However , it 's all been worth it , ’ he says . |
| 7 | However , this would not have been worth as much as the Guardian payout to the average investor . |
| 8 | The rigidity and over-centralisation had been shown in the nurses ' pay regrading exercise , which had been worth ‘ nought out of 10 — useless ’ . |
| 9 | With child care costs added to reasonable travelling expenses , this alone would have been worth as much as £40 a week now . |
| 10 | In Washington , President Bush appeared in the White House press room to tell reporters ‘ Yes , it has been worth it . ’ |
| 11 | I once saw a painted picture of something like it in the Rockefeller Centre — must have been worth a million dollars or more — but we never had anything like that , so that mountain was my art , something beautiful and eternal . |
| 12 | After a weekend of brooding silence and no service , Nigel began to think it had all been worth it . |
| 13 | All the way home I was so happy ; everything had been worth while , everything was going to be all right . |
| 14 | This was only a modest puff of inflation by subsequent standards : by 1974 the 1950 pound would have been worth only one-third of a pound . |
| 15 | SHe knew it was unlikely SHe could count on Alix 's discretion , but the need for medical backup had been worth the disclosures . |
| 16 | When he had finished the hearings quickly wound up with no incisive questioning of the last three witnesses , Shultz , Weinberger and Meese , although their tales would have been worth hearing ; the committees , after all , had contracted to finish by early August , whether or not the full story had been told . |
| 17 | That it has been ‘ the only game in town ’ , as many have argued , has not meant that it has necessarily been worth following , either from an Israeli or a Palestinian view . |
| 18 | It is often said , for example , that the Indonesian island of Bali is ruined and that it has n't been worth going to since the 1930s , but to walk through a Balinese night breathing the warm silk of tropical air accompanied by the croaking of frogs and the distant gongs and gamelan music of a temple celebration is a magical experience . |
| 19 | And , well , I just felt it had been worth trying but it was n't going to work . |
| 20 | She sighed , and wondered if all she had done to help the young couple could possibly have been worth it . |
| 21 | Oh yes , it had all been worth it . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm afraid not ; it should have been worth seeing . |
| 23 | Cliff 's contribution to the Palace cause would have been worth recording if it had stopped there at the end of 1962–63 , with Palace safely in mid-table but , twelve months later , and courtesy of 20 goals from the big man himself , we were back in Division Two after an absence of 39 years . |
| 24 | What with all those houses , plus the school , he must have been worth close to a million pounds , give or take the odd thousand . |
| 25 | ‘ WELL we 've waited long enough , but it 's been worth it , ’ said one of the nearly 200 primary school teachers who gathered at St Wilfrid 's Church in Northwich for a mass of thanksgiving for the new national programme for religious education . |
| 26 | It would have been worth overcoming your natural repugnance . ’ |
| 27 | The life he 's leaving really has n't been worth living . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ A few years ago this painting would have been worth about £3 million , now it is a third of that . ’ |
| 29 | At yesterday 's prices that stake would have been worth £7,900 . |
| 30 | Cuddling Alex , Mary Demetriou said her £10,000 , two-year legal battle had been worth it . |