This was the main reason why pearls fetched such extraordinary prices in the past.

Silver objects commanded extraordinary prices in a number of auctions.

Now it has an equally extraordinary price tag: £1.5 billion.

People were in a rush to buy, and at extraordinary prices.

By this standard, analysts said, the buyout group is paying a full, but not extraordinary, price for the magazines.

North Vietnamese intelligence had put an extraordinary price on his head, and it's no secret that among our own people a number hoped they'd succeed.

"It's an exceptional work, which is one of the reasons it made such an extraordinary price."

An extraordinary man like Pace would have an extraordinary price on his head.

"It's an extraordinary price in the current cautious auction climate."

Then why do they fetch such extraordinary prices at auctions?