Example sentences of "worth about [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The average outstanding debt on a credit card in 1979 was £95 , compared with £292 today — but , at 1979 rates , this would be worth about £124 . |
| 2 | Mars expect their customers to chomp their way through more than a billion bars this year , worth about £90m . |
| 3 | Police are warning people to be on the guard after cash and items worth about £60 were taken by a sneak thief from a bungalow in Colburn Village , near Catterick Garrison . |
| 4 | ‘ They were worth about £18,000 , but are almost irreplaceable , as some were young cattle due to join my milking herd . ’ |
| 5 | MoD is offering a ten-year contract , thought to be worth about £30 million , for the operation of RAF Topcliffe in North Yorkshire , currently home to the Royal Navy Elementary Flying Training School equipped with BAe Bulldogs . |
| 6 | The house , thought to be worth about £3,000 by the lawyers , in fact went for less . |
| 7 | He estimated the goods to be worth about £3,000 . |
| 8 | £3,000 haul in school raid VALUABLES worth about £3,000 were stolen from a school near Stokesley . |
| 9 | The Gabon holdings cover four million acres and already yield 9,000 barrels of oil — worth about $162,000 — a day . |
| 10 | These show that the property portfolio is worth about £1.2 billion at present prices compared with £1.7 billion at the last year end . |
| 11 | In the first nine months of this year total United Kingdom beef exports amounted to just over 84,000 tonnes worth about £167 million . |
| 12 | The Sierra is now worth about £1750 in a private sale . |
| 13 | THE Surrey-based management consultancy and computer services group , P-E International , has won a contract worth about £500,000 annually to develop and maintain software for the big Edinburg-based life assurance company , Standard Life . |
| 14 | The first alleges he set fire to clothing valued at £10 in Littlewoods store in Oxford city centre , the second alleges that a few minutes later he set fire to clothing worth about £100 at the Nicklebys store nearby . |
| 15 | The non-poisonous snake , which is worth about £100 , is orange and tan with dark triangular markings and lives on dead mice . |
| 16 | A Ford Fiesta car was stolen from Appleton Wiske , near Northallerton , and later found abandoned minus its four wheels , worth about £100 . |
| 17 | In a move to freeze about two-thirds of all the money in circulation , short-term seven-day banking deposits worth about $2,000 million were frozen on Jan. 1 , and the amount which investors could withdraw in cash was limited to 1,000,000 australs , the option being to accept repayment of savings in 10-year dollar bonds . |
| 18 | The contract , which was reportedly worth about $2,000 million when re-orders were taken into account , was open to tender but the USA feared that Japan would apply pressure via its aid relationship for preferential treatment for NEC . |
| 19 | BP PROPERTIES has sold a central London office to EIE International , the Japanese property investment group , in a deal thought to be worth about £200m . |
| 20 | The former is probably worth about £3 per hour , and the latter , which effectively halves fixed costs , is worth about £4–£5 per hour , depending upon utilisation . |
| 21 | However , BA is now expected to announce a revised partnership deal in which it would gain a 20% stake worth about $340m . |
| 22 | DOS now sells about 17m copies a year , and Mr Gates 's 40% stake in Microsoft is worth about $4 billion . |
| 23 | Ultimate Corp reports an order for a second large Sequoia Computer Systems Inc fault-tolerant Unix machine from Moscow-based Almazjuvelir Export : the firm is to use a Motorola 68030-based Sequoia Model 300 2.2.2 computer system worth about $880,000 — and is paying in hard currency . |
| 24 | Enjoying what I had heard so much , I started asking questions , only to realise that the equipment in these cars alone was worth about £3500 , and installation costs were on top of that ! |
| 25 | Manager David Waring said : ‘ We are still assessing the damage and what was taken but we think we 've lost about 30 garments worth about £2,500 . ’ |
| 26 | According to the author of the report , Tony Vernon Harcourt , a director on base pay of £100,000 typically enjoys a package close to £200,000 after adding in a £17,000 bonus , £20,000 company pension contribution , car and other benefits worth £10,000 and an annual profit on share options worth about £50,000 . |
| 27 | Scottish scallops , worth about £7,000 and due for export to Spain , have been buried alive after being found to be contaminated with heavy metals . |
| 28 | But Ireland 's new track queen Sonia O'Sullivan also has her eyes set on the prize , and she has the taste for mega-bucks after her 3,000m win in Brussels earned her four one kilogram gold bars worth about £33,000 . |
| 29 | World official gold reserves are worth about $350 billion at today 's prices . |
| 30 | Li Peng held " very fruitful " talks with President Hossain Mohammad Ershad during his visit to Bangladesh on Nov. 17-19 , signing four agreements and a note of exchange , including a long-term trade agreement for 1990-94 and a soft loan for Bangladesh worth about $40,000,000 . |