Sentence examples for have been bid from inspiring English sources
House prices have been bid up well beyond a sustainable relationship with wages.
Like buyouts then, Mr. Kerschner wrote, the prices of new-economy stocks have been bid up to "absurd extremes".
He favors sectors like financial services, industrials and materials and would avoid consumer sectors, where prices have been bid up.
Prices of junk bonds may have been bid up by investment funds trying to use up large cash balances before the end of the year, rather than by expectations of economic recovery, says Martin Fridson of Merrill Lynch.
The consensus had been 50, but expectations have been bid up, and are now closing in on 75.
If you have a hankering to join an investment fad after prices have been bid to the sky (see main story), various outfits will be happy to take your money.
There have been bidding wars.
Institutions have been bidding at Guernsey's sales.
For their part, investors have been bidding up stock prices steadily since late November.
Some cities and states have been bidding up their own minimum-wage laws.
Lately, for instance, Chinese collectors have been bidding up the prices of Chinese artworks.
