Sentence examples for about to bid from inspiring English sources

Robinson (South) was about to bid three no-trump when East made a lead-directing double.

Comcast may now prefer to buy MGM, a film studio that Sony may be about to bid for, or Adelphia, a struggling cable rival.

Almaty is rife with talk that Glencore has put its slide rule over the assets and may be about to bid for all or some.

Telecoms firms such as America's AT&T and Verizon are miffed that Google prospers, in their eyes, by free-riding on the bandwidth that they provide; and it is about to bid against them in a forthcoming auction for radio spectrum.

[C12.] Lafarge Bid Expected for Blue Circle Shares of Blue Circle Industries, a British cement company, rose more than 20percentt on reports that the building materials group Lafarge of France was about to bid as much as $5.7 billion for the company.

Shares in Blue Circle Industries, a British cement company, rose more than 20percenttodayay on reports that the world's No. 1 building materials group, Lafarge S.A. of France, was about to bid as much as $5.7 billion for Blue Circle.

Like, "Don't throw good money after bad," because you always should forget about the pot when making a decision about what to bid next.

They will make up their mind about whether to bid by the end of August.Havas could finance a takeover of Grey more easily with a partner.

He said many residents were furious because officials had given virtually no notice about plans to bid for the city's garbage.

The organizations raised about $36,000 this year to bid on all of the state public trapping sites.

Instead of the €50 billion, or $68 billion, spent in 2000, they are expected to bid about €5 billion at an auction that is to start April 12 in Germany.