Sentence examples for a second bid at from inspiring English sources

Bids start at £50, with a second bid at £75, a third at £100 and a fourth bid at £150.

Lee did not win a second bid for victory at Gettysburg, but thereafter stalemated Ulysses S. Grant in Virginia.

Last week, Taubman's board rejected a second bid that valued the company at $18 a share.

Pfizer has turned up the pressure on AstraZeneca's struggle to remain independent with a second bid that valued the British pharmaceutical group at £63bn.

Udall lost a second bid in 1988.

This was Mr. Uliassi's second bid at an around-the-world trip and was far more successful than the first, which ended shortly after launching when the balloon ruptured.

The agreement, reached in time for the state's second bid at $700 million in federal education grants, would scrap the current system whereby teachers were rated simply satisfactory or unsatisfactory.

Written in 1974, and given only a short run in New York in 1976, "Children" was Mr. Gurney's first bid at a full-length traditional play, and was partly based on a John Cheever short story, "Goodbye, My Brother".

Now 27 years old and in his second year with the Heat, the self-proclaimed "King James" has emerged as the dominant player in the Finals in his third bid at winning an NBA ring.

In its first bid at national politics, Mr. Grillo's anti-establishment party took a quarter of the votes in the elections last month, a success that was read as a sign of Italians' growing frustration with traditional parties.

Bidding on an 18th-century Philadelphia Chippendale wing chair at Sotheby's in 1986, he made the first bid at $400,000, and kept hoisting his paddle high while imperceptible signals from competitors around the room (an earlobe tug, a crossing of arms) drove the sale price to $1.1 million, then a record for American furniture, according to an account in The New York Times.