vale la pena

adv. worth one's while; worthwhile; worth it

(v.) = be not for nothing, be worth it, be worthwhile, be worth + the effort, be worth + Posesivo + time
Ex: It was not for nothing that he had learned to identify and isolate problems and to solve them. Ex: But the costs that I've seen so far aren't worth it for what it gets for our patrons. Ex: The School Library Association, therefore, deemed it worthwhile to draft and publish an abridged version of BC in 1967. Ex: This attitude reinforces the concept that the family is still alive, functioning and worth the effort to build and maintain. Ex: Just as we previously enumerated some of the golden rules of library collecting, so it is worth our time to dwell on some of the changes that will impinge on librarianship.

(v.) = be worth + Gerundio, be worth + Gerundio
Ex: Nevertheless, it is worth drawing a comparison between them so that menu-based information retrieval systems might avoid some of the pitfalls of traditional classification. Ex: Nevertheless, it is worth drawing a comparison between them so that menu-based information retrieval systems might avoid some of the pitfalls of traditional classification.

(v.) = be worth + Posesivo + while
Ex: There was nothing to stop another American publisher from reprinting the book if he thought it worth his while, a practice that was known as piracy although it was in fact legal.