Sentence examples for fetch less than from inspiring English sources

In the resulting firesale, Northern Rock's assets would probably fetch less than they are worth.

Mr. Huntrods had thought it would fetch less than $9,500 per acre.

Baltic cod fetch less than their Atlantic counterparts because they have lower-quality flesh and higher levels of contaminants.

Book-running fees on local share offerings are low: even billion-dollar mandates fetch less than 2%, says Amit Chandra, co-head of DSP Merrill Lynch.

The sale came as a surprise to the auctioneers, Lyon & Turnbull, who had expected the three-volume set to fetch less than a third of the final price.

Selling her brick-faced split-level home is out of the question: she knows it would fetch less than what she paid for it 25 years ago.

But other items fetched less than expected, and others still went unsold.

And little over a year ago, oil fetched less than $10 a barrel.

In the early days, an acre typically fetched less than $100,000.

It fetched less than they hoped, 225,000 pounds in bidding that lasted under 2 minutes.

The company's bonds are fetching less than 40 cents on the dollar.