The study says mangrove trees provide more than one and a half billion dollars worth of services to ecological systems worldwide.

VOA: special.2010.04.20

In Asian countries, the high demand for shark fins for cooking has led to an illegal trade worth millions of dollars.

VOA: special.2009.04.03

One method was to sell oil in one area of the country for much less than the oil was worth.

VOA: special.2010.04.25

So when I had a handful of these cases, it seemed to me then there was likely something worth investigating.

VOA: special.2010.02.24

And if he could bring great players to New York, they'd be worth a lot of money to him."

VOA: special.2010.07.26

The team looked at thirty years' worth of information on food security and agricultural policy in Gambia, Ivory Coast and Mali.

VOA: special.2010.03.23

But beans are used to describe something of very little value in the expression, not worth a hill of beans.

VOA: special.2010.01.31

It was also not easy for the family to accept that her cells had fueled an industry worth millions of dollars.

VOA: special.2010.07.21

Later,the production of this line of cells by companies would grow into an industry worth millions of dollars.

VOA: special.2010.07.21

They said any man who worked hard could find five to ten dollars worth of gold a day, and sometimes even more.

VOA: special.2009.05.28

He came off the ship Excelsior in San Francisco with one hundred thirty thousand dollars worth of gold.

VOA: special.2009.02.04

For example,in two thousand five, the United States bought one point four billion dollars worth of cocoa products.

VOA: special.2010.02.17

she said, "and get me twenty-five cents' worth of tea and ten cents' worth of sugar cakes.

VOA: special.2010.06.12

That is,he asked his accountant to take a close look at the finances of my company and decide how much it was worth.

VOA: special.2010.11.28