Sentence examples for worth of effort from inspiring English sources

"I'm disappointed because a year's worth of effort – her effort and my effort – has gone to waste.

And by my reckoning I've put in 20 years' worth of effort and money so I don't have to bother again till 2033.

The blouse creates an illusion of having put in a full day's worth of effort, even though that meeting was just "a general" and won't lead to anything.

Stephen O'Connor, an executive from Morgan Stanley, came up with an even more lengthy estimate, saying his clients say it could take an entire day to renegotiate contracts and that could mean "100 man-years worth of effort".

Neither party had a brass bawbee to show for a combined 125 years' worth of effort, and nobody expected them to prevail at Wembley against the swaggering Chelsea of Charlie Cooke, Peter Osgood and Alan Hudson.

Upon discovering that one safety device, called the middle pipe ram, or M.P.R., had been modified years before — meaning that more than a week's worth of effort to activate it had been doomed from the start — one engineer was obviously displeased.

A solid afternoon's worth of efforts to elicit tidbits about his golf game elicited nothing.

Taken were files that chronicled a generation's worth of efforts to protect the Siberian wilderness.

Royal Dutch Shell is getting closer to winning approval to drill in Alaska's Arctic waters after several years' and more than $4 billion worth of efforts.

Despite centuries' worth of efforts to penetrate the complicated thickets where health and beauty intertwine, there is always more to explore, as two new books make clear.

If we aren't left with a sense of the mysteriousness of time after looking at several millenniums' worth of efforts to regulate and control it, then we have missed the point.