Sentence examples for auctioning back from inspiring English sources

But when he heard that a local library was going to be auctioning back issues of The New York Review of Books as waste paper, he knew exactly what to do.

Going price for the rights to stage such auctions back then was on the order of $150,000, which the auctioneer made back on commissions many times over.

Given the pressure, the FCC may be forced to push the auction back until next year.How can a few small TV stations cause such trouble?

According to the Wrap, it's been tried before: "Sony Pictures acquired Foundation in a multi-studio auction back in 2009 and attached Roland Emmerich to direct and produce.

May 11 2015 May 13 201515 Christie's is shaking up the spring season by moving its Impressionist auctions back by a week, with all the big-ticket sales — Impressionist, Modern, and Contemporary — taking place over just a few days, beginning on May 11.

The town of Dixville Notch consists of little more than the Balsams, a grand old country resort that Mr. Tillotson bought at auction back in 1954 (it cost a mere $185,000, he says), largely for sentimental reasons, because his forebears had farmed in the area.

We want the old Sitepoint Auctions back.

NextWave snapped up its wireless licenses at a Federal Communications Commission auction back in 1996.

Verizon revealed its intention to divest itself of extra 700 MHz licenses it picked up in the auction back in 2008 in April 2012.

And I think this was rather unique and still is unique to the hobby.... Rare stamps are like fingerprints: They're unique, and you can trace them as they've traded in auctions back almost a hundred years.

In this version, the allowances are auctioned, but the government returns all of the income from the auction back to consumers in some egalitarian way -- for example on a per capita basis.