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

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

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

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

In eighteen sixty, American shops and factories produced less than two thousand million dollars' worth of goods.

VOA: special.2010.05.13

He said we had uncovered over a million dollars worth of gold in only three months.

VOA: special.2011.07.16

The prize,worth almost a million and a half dollars, will be awarded in Oslo in December.

VOA: special.2009.10.10

Here is some good advice: a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

VOA: special.2010.06.13

If a person donated the token to a group project, the token was worth half of that amount to each person in the group.

VOA: special.2009.03.03

In London,the British government decided that Oregon was not worth a war with the United States.

VOA: special.2009.02.19

The Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth,Texas is another famous building by Louis Kahn.

VOA: special.2009.12.13

Thirty years later, in eighteen ninety, American factories produced ten thousand million dollars' worth.

VOA: special.2010.05.13

His victory Sunday at Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth was especially sweet.

VOA: special.2009.04.10