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yearsworth

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Etymology

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Fromyear +‎-s- +‎-worth.

Noun

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yearsworth (uncountable)

  1. The amount of something that is expected to last for or be produced in one year.
    • 1967,Water and Water Engineering:
      We've given a million pounds to these waterworks and we shan't live to use more than (say) fifteenyearsworth of them.
    • 1994, Bradford Morrow,Conjunctions, Random House Inc,→ISBN:
      So she writes tenyearsworth of practice-fiction without making noteworthy progress except in language-mechanics and the range of her vocabulary, meanwhile accumulating mileage on her experiential odometer
    • 1997, John Barth,The Tidewater Tales, Taylor & Francis,→ISBN, page313:
      He didn't look like my father or my brother, Kath; he was my clone, only older. He didn't look like what I look like now, seventeenyearsworth of stories later; he looked like what I'll look like another twenty-someyearsworth of stories from now
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