Sentence examples for bid for a slice from inspiring English sources
The council has ambitious plans for more co-operative services such as participatory budgeting, where local groups bid for a slice of £50,000 funding for public health projects.
The BT executive who oversaw the company's successful bid for a slice of the record-breaking £5.1bn auction for Premier League TV rights has claimed the deal vindicated its bidding strategy and its original decision to enter the sports broadcasting market.
The government is due to start an auction by the end of 2012 whereby the UK's mobile network providers will bid for a slice of the 4G spectrum, with firms expected to start rolling out 4G services to consumers in late 2013.
Verizon Wireless' $1.3 billion bid for a slice of spectrum in the Northeast is the single largest bid.
Last week, the government announced councils could bid for a slice of £100m if they felt they had been badly affected by potholes.
The region holds vast resources and it seems inconceivable that BP will not bid for a slice of this - controversial - energy pie, especially as the discovery of "easy oil" dries up.
Then there is the interest of American energy companies in bidding for a slice of a giant deep-sea oilfield at an auction next month.
Google's boss, Eric Schmidt, has already said that the firm plans to bid for a prime slice of American wireless spectrum in a forthcoming auction, something Apple is also said to be considering.
Google's interest in mobile phones surfaced last spring, when it announced that, to advance the goal of an "open net," it was likely to make an initial bid of $4.6 billion for a slice of the nation's wireless airwaves.
The reissues, the re-releases, the proposed film about Marley, and even who earns from it, as Aston "Family Man" Barratt, Marley's revered bass player, found to his cost when he made a legal bid for a multimillion-pound slice of the Marley musical empire.
In the 2010 auctions for 3G telecoms licences, operators bid ten times more for a slice of the airwaves in affluent Delhi, with 18m people, than in east Uttar Pradesh, with 120m people.
