yearsworthとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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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) fifteen yearsworth of them.

   • 1994, Bradford Morrow, Conjunctions, Random House Inc (ISBN 9780679755814)

     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

   • 1997, John Barth, The Tidewater Tales, Taylor & Francis (ISBN 9780801855566), page 313

     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, seventeen yearsworth of stories later; he looked like what I'll look like another twenty-some yearsworth of stories from now