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 (kn124,400 thousand) from source
Thousands of
You can buy one of the following:
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Nissan Micra
Car for £7,820 (kn69,080) -
duck islands
Cost of a floating duck island, claimed as an expense by Conservative MP, Peter Viggers. for £1,645 (kn14,530) 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 (kn102,300 thousand) -
1 Year of Wikipedia
Yearly expenditure of Wikimedia Foundation, 2007/8 for US$3,541 thousand (kn20,390 thousand) from wikipedia -
1 Influencing legislation
Fee requested by Lord Truscott to amend government legislation. for £72 thousand (kn636 thousand) from wikipedia -
100 Thumbs
Criminal injuries compensation for loss of thumb, 1996. for £15 thousand (kn132,500) from source -
5 thousand Freedom of Information requests
Average cost of a request under the UK's Freedom of Information Act, 2010. for £159.80 (kn1,412) from source