worth the effort
worth the trouble

They stick in the mind and seem worth the trouble.

Agency officials say it is just not worth the trouble.

Not that he doesn't sometimes wonder whether it is worth the trouble.

In the end, he says, it was all worth the trouble.

Still, he said, having a Web site is worth the trouble.

The last two are hard to find but worth the trouble.

I don't mean to say that the problem is worth the trouble.

If she'd managed to reach just one member of her class, then it had been worth the trouble.

Too few data thus far to make it worth the trouble.

Are we supposed to show them whether or not we're worth the trouble?