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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
The 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.
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
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
Use yearsworth when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Yearsworth means The amount of something that is expected to last for or be produced in one year..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
We've given a million pounds to these waterworks and we shan't live to use more than (say) fifteen yearsworth of them.
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