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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
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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 -
duck islands
Cost of a floating duck island, claimed as an expense by Conservative MP, Peter Viggers. for £1,645 (COL$4,801 thousand) from wikipedia
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1 Year of Wikipedia
Yearly expenditure of Wikimedia Foundation, 2007/8 for US$3,541 thousand (COL$6,736 million) from wikipedia -
1 One cube of gold one meter in size
One cube of gold one meter in size for US$1,038 thousand (COL$1,975 million) from hardcoded -
1 40 minutes of Lilly Allen
40 minute performance by Lilly Allen, 2006. Photo: Benoît Derrier. for £60 thousand (COL$175,100 thousand) from source -
200 questions in the UK parliament
Payments made to MPs to table parliamentary questions, 1994. for £2 thousand (COL$5,837 thousand) from wikipedia -
7 thousand McFlurries
McDonald's Ice Cream for £1.20 (COL$3,502)