Near this price
You can buy one of the following:
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House
Average (mean) cost of a House in the United Kindgom, 2010 for £251,600 (COL$734,300 thousand) from source
Buy all billionaires
You can buy each US-dollar billionaire one of the following items:
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Rooms at The Langham Hotel, London
Bed and breakfast in Classic Room at the Langham Hotel, London. for £310.80 (COL$907 thousand) from source
Shopping list
You can buy all of the following:
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1 Freedom of Information request
Average cost of a request under the UK's Freedom of Information Act, 2010. for £159.80 (COL$466,300) from source -
6 thousand Random number tables
"A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates" by Michael D. Rich for £62 (COL$180,900) from waterstones -
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3 thousand Prescription medicine items
Cost charged by the NHS for an item of prescription medicine for £7.40 (COL$21,600) from source -
1 One word by Stephen Fry
Cost per word of Stephen Fry's column for £3 (COL$8,755)