The phrase "a single auction" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to one specific auction event or instance, often in contexts related to sales, bidding, or events.
Example: "The art gallery will host a single auction for the collection of rare paintings next month."
Alternatives: "one auction" or "a lone auction".
Indeed, it will run a single auction for text, graphical and video ads.
Sotheby's holds a single auction this week, a sale of books and manuscripts (June 19), which is its last of the 2007-08 season.
LONDON — Jamming into a single auction anything that can be called art from the 7th to the 19th century is not a recipe for coherence.
This year's sale of the 4G airwaves designed to carry superfast internet connections, the biggest ever chunk of spectrum ever sold in a single auction, raised only £2.3bn.
Tuesday night's sale, however, was the highest total for a single auction, not accounting for inflation, in Christie's history, officials at the auction house said, adding that about 30percentt of the buyers were new to Christie's.
This is the problem where a buyer has no dominant strategy in bidding across multiple auctions when the buyer would have a simple, truth-revealing strategy if there was but a single auction event.
Mr. Donahoe has led the acquisition of companies like the ticket exchange StubHub, helping eBay morph from a single auction-oriented marketplace into a portfolio of retail sites.
Christie's said Tuesday's sale brought in more than $691.5m, the highest total for any single auction in history.
Christie's sale of contemporary art on Tuesday fetched more than $691.5 million to break the record for the highest total brought by any single auction.
While analysts cautioned against reading too much into a single bond auction, the weak auction was at the very least a blow to the prestige of Germany, whose economic strength has enabled it to largely dictate how the euro region will cope with the debt crisis.
January 26 2011 Christie's is keeping things short and sweet, with a single, daylong auction devoted to Old Master and nineteenth-century paintings on Jan . 26
