Sentence examples for bid for a bit from inspiring English sources

Baseball makes a bid for a bit of attention, as the Florida Marlins are expected to hire 80-year-old Jack McKeon as their new manager.

In a bid for a bit more peace and quiet, David Yassky, the taxi commissioner, has now sent word by text message to New York's 13,000 taxi drivers that they should "honk ONLY in an emergency!" or risk getting a ticket, and he urged them to "be a good neighbor".

A hypothetical implementation of this idea would involve imagining people assigned equal bidding resources and holding an auction to distribute the material resources at hand, with the auction concluded only when no one wishes to change her bid for any bit of the stuff being divided by auction.

The story behind John Sallers' bid for a dangly bits empire is similar to Ham's, but not nearly as flashy.

The story behind John Sallers's bid for a dangly bits empire is similar to Ham's, but not nearly as flashy.

The bid is a bit of a sidestep for Mr. Dempsey, whose "Grey's Anatomy" character is a top surgeon at a fictional Seattle hospital.

In the first three auctions, Player 1 can bid $99.99 (a bit lower than $100).

Player 1 would try to estimate the second lowest price among all bids and set his/her bid just a bit lower than the second lowest price.

When bidding for a Spot Instance, a user specifies a maximum bid price.

With the online health care arena crowded with popular, well-financed sites like Healtheon/WebMD hlth and DrKoop.com koop, Bid for Surgery looks a bit like a ploy to draw attention to Medicine Online's struggling health care community.

Private companies then bid for each bit of work - which is the root of the problem, say some critics.