Sentence examples for a previous bid from inspiring English sources
Had her dad funded a previous bid for fame?
G.M. rejected a previous bid from Spyker in December.
But the owners ended up accepting a previous bid.
A previous bid for lottery money was rejected, though it is hard to understand why.
In a previous bid for the Senate, in 2008, Mr. Grisanti said he opposed same-sex marriage.
A previous bid was also blocked, in part due to national security concerns, because some of Kidman's land is close to a nuclear testing site.
William Gross, manager of the Pimco Total Return Fund, offered to take the bonds off the dealers hands at a lowball price — $500,000 less than the previous bid, a steep discount for such a short-term bond.
Under the terms of the deal, SABMiller will pay 5.10 Australian dollars ($5.22) a share, an increase from its previous bid of 4.90 Australian dollars ($5.01).
Still, Albert Fried & Co. analyst Richard Tullo, who had called Sillerman's previous bid an "insult," judged the new offer as "more fair" to investors.
The bid by the Neuberger Berman team trumped a previous $2.15 billion bid by two private equity firms, Bain Capital and Hellman & Friedman, because it offered certainty of closing, according to Jim Fogarty, an executive at the advisory firm Alvarez & Marsal who is serving as chief operating officer of the Lehman bankruptcy estate.
A number of major shareholders had angrily denounced the previous bid of $2.97 a share as too low, though other major Clearwire investors had already sold to Sprint at lower prices.
