Sentence examples for intense auction from inspiring English sources

Cage paid $276,000 for a Tyrannosaurus bataar skull in July 2007, which the Sunday Telegraph claimed saw him locked in an "intense" auction battle with DiCaprio.

A consortium led by JP Morgan's infrastructure investment arm emerged as the winner of the intense auction with a £4.2bn bid for the company, beating rival groups led by Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley.

Beating its sister company Random House and other publishers in an unexpectedly intense auction, the Knopf Publishing Group has agreed to pay an advance of about $4 million to the Yale law professor Stephen L. Carter for the manuscript of his first novel and another novel to follow.

That's not to say his previous foray with "Black Hat: Misfits, Criminals, and Scammers in the Internet Age" was anything to scoff at, but Biggityboo's (that's what I like to call him) "book was the object of an intense two-day auction involving six houses, including Collins and The Penguin Press".

That's not to say his previous foray with "Black Hat: Misfits, Criminals, and Scammers in the Internet Age" was anything to scoff at, but Biggityboo's (that's what I like to call him) " book was the object of an intense two-day auction involving six houses, including Collins and The Penguin Press".

Both auctions were intense.

While intense rivalry pitches them against auction houses, the two camps need each other.

The auction also saw intense interest in Chinese stamps, a new area which the company hopes will pay big dividends in future.

PARIS — Spain carried out a successful bond auction Thursday under intense scrutiny, even as expectations were growing that Madrid would soon ask other European nations to bail out its banking sector.

The intense focus on the sovereign debt auctions — and their importance to the broader economy — starkly underscores the difference between European and American responses to their crises.

Following the bird's extinction, remains of the great auk increased dramatically in value, and auctions of specimens created intense interest in Victorian Britain, where 15 specimens are now located, the largest number of any country.