With price tags like these, it is little surprise that these high profile homes have high profile owners.
Ani's new house is not perfect: It is little more than a wooden shack built with aid money.
It is little wonder that President Clinton has threatened to veto any voucher plan for the District of Columbia.
It is little wonder that there is a great deal of emotion around.
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It is little wonder that Japanese companies hoard so much of their profit.
With so much riding on the stockmarkets, it is little wonder that they are the subject of the politicians' attention.
So it is little wonder that the latest attempts to solve the banks' debt problems are noticeably short on money.
The IRS says it is little more than an avenue for owners of an empty corporate shell to avoid paying taxes.
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It is little surprise that UBS is looking to cut various parts of its fixed-income trading desk over the coming quarters.
That might sound like a lot, but it is little more than Iran, an impoverished country, has promised to its neighbour.
Rubbish may be universal, but it is little studied and poorly understood.
It is little wonder why leaders from both the State House and Senate put it on the ballot to let voters decide.
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With millions being spent on litigation, it is little wonder that plastics makers have been reluctant to license one metallocene technology rather than another.
It is little more than a week before the Leveson report into the culture, standards and ethics of the press is due to be published.
It is little wonder that he is sinking in the polls.
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Scene to many a beheading and imprisonment, it is little wonder that the Tower of London is considered one of the spookiest buildings in Britain.
After a bitterly disappointing election campaign and with the SNP on the road to nowhere, it is little wonder that Alex has decided to call it a day.
Now Bouchard has brought his Quebec venture to the U.S., where it is little known, at least under the quaint name of the parent company (French for night owl).
Central European growth may be the selling point of the merger, but in old, western European banking it is little more than a rounding error, says one consultant, rather dismissively.
In India, where the overwhelming majority of people are engaged in back-breaking farming, it is little wonder that they are more physically active than their counterparts in more prosperous countries.
With the WICB now having to meet the costs of these tournaments from its own funds, it is little wonder that cricket is essentially an amateur sport at regional level.
It is little comfort to players and their agents to say this is more of a gradually sloping mountain than a cliff, at least as to the fiscal impact of the franchise tag.
As the economy continues to shrink under the impact of austerity at home and recession abroad, it is little wonder that anxiety about the outcome of next month's poll extends far beyond Greece itself.
Battered by strong winds and waves, and more than 80km from the nearest island, it is little surprise that only a handful of people actually live here - despite the government putting in free wifi.
Given this prospect, it is little wonder that the same western steelmakers that have done so well out of rising Chinese demand are now quaking at the prospect of fleetloads of Chinese metal steaming straight into their markets.
And although it is little known, the justices themselves are allowed to give out up to nine tickets to anyone they want, so having an "in" with the bench might be the only way some interested parties will be admitted.
It is little surprise that one recent opinion survey, conducted at a time of sharpened tension in the peace process, nonetheless found that Israelis were more worried by this internal conflict between church and state than by the conflict with the Arabs.
There seems to be a prevailing view that it is little short of scandalous that Goldman Sachs in the UK may defer the handing over of shares to its executives, so that they would be liable to next year's income tax rate of 45% on the payments rather than this year's 50% (see this morning's FT for more on this).
"For a huge football country like England it is a little bit sad to know that it is 40 years since we last won a big tournament - and it's time to do it now, " said the Swede.
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