Visualise how much an amount of money is worth (by seeing how much you could buy with it).
£44.0m can buy all of the following:
400 UK Members of Parliament
Yearly Salary01/04/09£64766 × 400 = £25.9m6 years of Wikipedia
Yearly expenditure of Wikimedia Foundation2007/2008US$3.54m (£2.22m) × 6 = US$13.3m (£8.33m)Altering 24 UK laws
Cost per year of influencing UK legislation2009£120k × 24 = £2.88mInformation from Lord Taylor920 minutes of Lilly Allen
Hire the singerDecember 2006£60000 for 40 × 23 = £1.38mand
13 legs
Criminal injuries compensation for loss of leg above knee01/04/96£40000 × 13 = £520k