a year's worth

Example Sentences

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That’s over $160 billion dollars worth of food.

From Salon • Jul. 2, 2026

Several institutions ordered billions of dollars worth of shares.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 12, 2026

Once you've sold a bit, you can start to sell more – and that means potentially trillions of dollars worth of new shares coming to market over the coming months and years.

From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026

The resulting juxtaposition offers a stark symbol of the economic fallout from the Iran war: Sailors are stuck on ships loaded with tens of millions of dollars worth of fertilizer, yet are left rationing food.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 9, 2026

Now that we no longer belonged to the Company, we somehow had to acquire a thousand dollars worth of property, a faraway figure when you can only save nickels and dimes.

From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep