Sentence examples for amounts worth from inspiring English sources

Mostly he dealt in "nickels and dimes," he said, meaning small amounts worth $5 and $10.

Closed-end funds that issue auction-rate notes typically sell them in amounts worth one-third the value of their underlying assets.

Are these amounts worth paying?

Besides, receipts from property markets and the financial-services sector have fallen by an amount worth almost 2% of GDP.

He rarely spent more than a million dollars per picture, even as inflation made this amount worth less and less.

The amount worth stealing on a Volvo racing yacht is small, but 11 top racing yachtsmen could make a juicy hostage target.

In theory it can still fine France for breach of the 3% deficit rules, for an amount worth up to 0.2% of GDP, although nobody seriously expects this to happen.

A report by the White House Council of Economic Advisers says the expansion of coverage would increase societal well-being by an amount worth $100 billion per year, while the availability of policies through the exchanges would allow workers to switch jobs without losing coverage.

According to a recent IMF paper, around a fifth of foreign sovereign debt issued under New York law an amount worth $100 billion does not include CACs, and could thus be vulnerable to an Argentina-style challenge.

That whole amount, worth about $2.7 million, may now have to be destroyed, she said, adding that ProdiGene could face fines or penalties for not fulfilling terms of its permit requiring it to monitor its test plot carefully the following year.

I don't know if we're really going to push this through, but it's an idea whose time has come: $3 billion is an amount worth fighting for".