In 2011, this means surviving on the equivalent to US $ 1. 50, A $ 2 or £ 1 per day.

* 1963 – Great Train Robbery: in England, a gang of 15 train robbers steal £ 2. 6 million in bank notes.

The British were able to annex Sind and for his services, Hasan Ali Shah received an annual pension of £ 2, 000 from General Charles Napier, the British conqueror of Sind with whom he had a good relationship.

The deal valued Aston Martin / AML at £ 2 million, the year it built its 10, 000th car.

In the 18th and 19th centuries White Notes were issued in £ 1 and £ 2 denominations.

Additional awards were presented to the British fleet: Nelson was awarded £ 2, 000 (£ as of ) a year for life by the Parliament of Great Britain and £ 1, 000 per annum by the Parliament of Ireland, although the latter was inadvertently discontinued after the Act of Union dissolved the Irish Parliament.

Upon the contempt being either admitted or proved the judge or JP may imprison the offender for a maximum of one month, fine them up to GBP £ 2, 500, or do both.

In the English jurisdiction, nominal damages are generally fixed at £ 2.

In May 1948 Thomas and his family moved to his final home, the Boat House at Laugharne purchased for him at a cost of £ 2, 500 in April 1949 by Margaret Taylor, first wife of historian A. J. P. Taylor.

Twelve-year-old Edward was now the 17th Earl of Oxford and Lord Great Chamberlain of England, and heir to an estate whose annual income, though assessed at approximately £ 2, 500, may have run as high as £ 3, 500.

He was entitled to yearly revenues from his estates and the office of Lord Great Chamberlain of approximately £ 2, 250, but he was not entitled to the income from his mother's jointure until after her death, nor to the income from certain estates set aside to pay his father's debts until 1583.

In June 1580 he purchased a tenement and seven acres of land near Aldgate in London from the Italian merchant Benedict Spinola for £ 2, 500.

Anderson paid singer Michael Holliday £ 2, 000 to sing the songs in the shows that were composed by Barry Gray.

For his invention Davy was awarded £ 2, 000, whilst Stephenson was accused of stealing the idea from Davy.

After winning the Golden Boot at the 1986 World Cup in Mexico, Lineker was signed by Barcelona for £ 2, 800, 000.

Under the protocol signed on 7 May 1832 between Bavaria and the protecting Powers, and basically dealing with the way in which the Regency was to be managed until Otto reached his majority ( while also concluding the second Greek loan, for a sum of £ 2, 400, 000 sterling ), Greece was defined as an independent kingdom, with the Arta-Volos line as its northern frontier.

* In 2006 the Company sold Quest International, its flavours and Fragrances business, to Givaudan, for £ 1. 2 billion and Uniqema, its textile auxiliaries business, to Croda International, for £ 410 million.

Dutch firm Akzo Nobel ( owner of Crown Berger paints ) bid £ 7. 2 billion (€ 10. 66 billion or $ 14. 5 billion US ) for ICI in June 2007.

At the end of 2008, deposits in Jersey banks totalled £ 206 billion, down £ 6. 2 billion from £ 212. 3 billion at the start of the year.

This converted to GBP £ 1, 687, 837 at the time In 2012, the capital is worth around SEK 3. 1 billion ( USD 472 million, EUR 337 million ), which is almost twice the amount of the initial capital, taking inflation into account.

The Trust was funded by a gift of $ 10 million ( a then unprecedented sum: at the time, total government assistance to all four Scottish universities was about £ 50, 000 a year ) and its aim was to improve and extend the opportunities for scientific research in the Scottish universities and to enable the deserving and qualified youth of Scotland to attend a university.

On 12 March 2007, it was purchased for £ 479 million by a joint venture company, headed by David Richards, John Singers, an American investment banker ; and two Kuwaiti investment companies, Investment Dar and Adeem Investment.

The company was resold, following a further bankruptcy event, by the Receiver in 1975 to North American businessmen Peter Sprague and George Minden for £ 1. 05 million.

In January 2009 Aon was fined £ 5. 25 million in the UK after it made more than $ 7 million worth of " suspicious " payments to overseas firms and individuals.

The acquiring price was US $ 1. 75 billion or £ 935 million, with US $ 170 million of debt.

The deal is said to be worth £ 80 million over four years, replacing United's deal with AIG as the most lucrative shirt deal in history at the time, but it was later equalled when Standard Chartered Bank agreed a deal with Liverpool FC to pay £ 20 million a year over the same period.

At the same time the African and Oceanic collections that had been temporarily housed in 6 Burlington Gardens were given a new gallery in the North Wing funded by the Sainsbury family-with the donation valued at £ 25 million.

However, the lack of a large temporary exhibition space has led to the £ 100 million World Conservation and Exhibition Centre to provide one and to concentrate all the Museum's conservation facilities into one Conservation Centre.

A 2011 donation of £ 1 million enabled the museum to acquire a complete set of Pablo Picasso's Vollard Suite.

They also hope to invest in a new modern transport system ( high-speed rail and others ) for Belfast, with a cost of £ 250 million.

The full significance of this soon became apparent as the club recorded net losses of over £ 13 million in the past financial year.

In response to Lord Chalfont's claim in that the Soviet Union was giving the European peace movement £ 100 million a year, Bruce Kent said, " If they were, it was certainly not getting to our grotty little office in Finsbury Park.

In April 2012 it was ranked by Forbes Magazine as the seventh most valuable football club in the world, at £ 473 million ($ 761 million ).

In June 2003, Bates sold Chelsea to Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich for £ 140 million.

Over £ 100 million was spent on new players, but Ranieri was unable to deliver any trophies, and was replaced by José Mourinho.

He cited a number of examples of how, in his opinion, the Human Rights Act had failed: " the schoolboy arsonist allowed back into the classroom because enforcing discipline apparently denied his right to education ; the convicted rapist given £ 4000 compensation because his second appeal was delayed ; the burglar given taxpayers ' money to sue the man whose house he broke into ; travellers who thumb their nose at the law allowed to stay on green belt sites they have occupied in defiance of planning laws ".

The technology was developed by Australian firm Laservision and cost approximately £ 2 million.

The museum underwent a £ 16 million refurbishment in 1998, developing a new digital technology gallery and now hosts the BBC's Bradford offices, and studios for BBC Radio Leeds and the BBC Bradford and West Yorkshire Website.

Between 2002 and 2015 it is estimated that the DVLA will spend £ 500 million on information technology from IBM.

While a capable locomotive for the day, its technology was somewhat antiquated compared to George and Robert Stephenson's Rocket, the winner of the Rainhill Trials and the £ 500 prize money.

At the beginning of 2005 it was announced that the Police Information Technology Organisation ( PITO ) had signed an eight-year £ 122 m contract to introduce biometric identification technology.

A proposed £ 150m campus in the city centre of Birmingham, part of the Eastside development of a new technology and learning quarter, is to open in 2013.

In 1847, he gave it to his nephew John Naylor ( 1813 – 1889 ) as a wedding present, who then proceeded to rebuild the house and estate at a reputed cost of £ 275, 000, plus an additional £ 200, 000 on the industrial farm technology.

The Barclaycard OnePulse incorporates contactless payment technology, allowing most transactions up to £ 20 to be carried out without the need to enter a PIN ( unlike the Chip and PIN system ).

In May 2011 the Ministry of Defence announced that a new design had been selected for the PWR3 " based on a US design but using UK reactor technology ", at a cost of about £ 3 billion.

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The office was responsible for co-ordination of the Government's science and technology related activities and policies, and the distribution of some £ 2. 4 billion amongst the seven UK Research Councils ( also see Research Councils UK ).

It is home to the TechnoCentre, a unique complex offering a focus for training, conferences and business opportunities ; the Enterprise Centre, a £ 3 million development providing dedicated accommodation for new small-and medium-sized enterprises ; and the Coventry and Warwickshire New Technology Institute, which works with companies to address skills shortages in ICT and advanced technology.

The new £ 1 million development features up-to-date technology and industry specification equipment.

* Fastway will use £ 19 million public money and £ 14 million private money, and will used untested technology., retrieved 5 August 2005.

** In July 2010 Orbis Technology acquired Alphameric Solutions, a provider of technology to the bookmaking marketplace, from Alphameric PLC for £ 15. 5M.

He used over 73 microprocessors, which was cutting edge 1980s remote control robotic technology in that day, at a cost around £ 10, 000 to manufacture – which was a small fortune in those days – to control Dusty and Garbage, and in 151 shows, some of Dusty's & Garbage's antics included dressing up as a caveman and dinosaur, bull fighting as a matador and bull, dressing up as a baby, driving into the studio in a Ford Model T, juggling balls like a clown, playing the piano like Elton John, flying round the studio with a James Bond jetpack, escaping from chains like Harry Houdini, riding a bike, spraying Ted Rogers with paint and even driving a tank into the studio, to bomb the audience with confetti.

In a new approach to venturing, Cambridge Consultants established a joint £ 10-million joint venture fund with the technology venture capitalist Esprit Capital Partners.

For £ 100, 000 over three years local technology company Causeway bought the naming rights to the ground.

From 2002 to 2005, Lady Neville-Jones was also non-executive chairman of the part Government-owned defence technology company QinetiQ, which was privatised for £ 1. 3 billion in February 2006.

A second band of subjects, listed as " other priority secondary specialisms " ( art and design, design and technology, economics, engineering, English, dance, drama, geography, history, information and communications technology ( ICT ), computer science, classics, music, biology, physical education, primary, and religious education ) attract a bursary of £ 9, 000 for those graduates with a first, and £ 5, 000 for those with a 2. 1.