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You can buy one of the following:
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Monthly rent
Average monthly cost of renting accomidation in the United Kingdom, 2006/7 for £565 (COL$1,649 thousand) from source
Buy all billionaires
You can buy each US-dollar billionaire one of the following items:
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Prom tickets
Ticket to a BBC Proms classical music concert, standing for £5 (COL$14,590) from source -
Souvenir guides to the Natural History Museum
Souvenir guide to London's Natural History Museum for £4.50 (COL$13,130)
Shopping list
You can buy all of the following:
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1 Olympic swimming pool filled with tap water
Olympic swimming pool filled with tap water for £3,359 (COL$9,802 thousand) from hardcoded -
1 Question in the UK parliament
Payments made to MPs to table parliamentary questions, 1994. for £2 thousand (COL$5,837 thousand) from wikipedia -
400 Words by Stephen Fry
Cost per word of Stephen Fry's column for £3 (COL$8,755)