You could buy
You can buy one of the following:
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Mitt Romney's Salary
Yearly income. Image: Gage_Skidmore for US$21,600 thousand (HK$167,700 thousand) from source
Thousands of
You can buy one of the following:
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Nissan Micra
Car for £7,820 (HK$93,120) -
questions in the UK parliament
Payments made to MPs to table parliamentary questions, 1994. for £2 thousand (HK$23,820) from wikipedia
Shopping list
You can buy all of the following:
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1 Olympic swimming pool filled with butter
Olympic swimming pool filled with butter for £11,580 thousand (HK$137,900 thousand) -
1 Year of Wikipedia
Yearly expenditure of Wikimedia Foundation, 2007/8 for US$3,541 thousand (HK$27,490 thousand) from wikipedia -
1 House
Average (mean) cost of a House in the United Kindgom, 2010 for £251,600 (HK$2,996 thousand) from source -
1 Leg
Criminal injuries compensation for loss of leg above knee, 1996. for £40 thousand (HK$476,300) from source -
1 Housing benefit
Average (mean) weekly housing benefit claim in the UK, July 2011 for £87.18 (HK$1,038) from source