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Lord Strabolgi: My Lords, can my noble friend say what is the anticipated life of the millennium dome? How long is it expected to last?
Noble Lords: One thousand years!
Lord McIntosh of Haringey: My Lords, I like that idea. The dome is to be built of
PTFE - polytetrafluoroethylene.
— House of Lords Debate, 3 November 1997, cc 1221-1224, quoted in Philippa Carling and Antony Seely, “The Millennium Dome,” House of Commons Library Research Paper 98/32, 12 March 1998, 41
