Meanings
- uncountableThe amount of something that is expected to last for or be produced in one year.
We've given a million pounds to these waterworks and we shan't live to use more than (say) fifteen yearsworth of them.
1967, Water and Water Engineering2 more examples
So she writes ten yearsworth of practice-fiction without making noteworthy progress except in language-mechanics and the range of her vocabulary, meanwhile accumulating mileage on her experiential odometer
1994, Bradford Morrow, Conjunctions, Random House Inc, →ISBNHe 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, seventeen yearsworth of stories later; he looked like what I'll look like another twenty-some yearsworth of stories from now
1997, John Barth, The Tidewater Tales, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 313
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