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That means, in effect, if one of those companies was dismantled and sold off for its parts, it would fetch more than its market value.

When Burton Hall, a grade II* listed Elizabethan property in Cheshire, went on the market in 2014, its owners, Helena and John Rowton, hoped it would fetch £1.875m.

When the American pharma giant announced last year that it wanted to sell its infant-nutrition business, few expected that it would fetch such a good price.

At auction it would fetch at least......

Sotheby's estimated it would fetch $20 million to $30 million.

(It would fetch $500 at the auction held that night, which raised about $3,000).

Similarly, he was slow to move to sell Lehman's crown jewel, asset manager Neuberger Berman, believing that it, too, would fetch more money.

Wilson decided to leg it out, as if someone would fetch the ball, throw it back and tag him out.

When it was full, he would fetch another basket.

So one wonders what the 1980 Martin M-42 custom guitar in the display case at Matt Umanov's vintage-guitar store, on Bleecker Street, would fetch if it didn't have a knife gash in it from a bar fight in Mexico, and if the scary-looking metal folding knife that allegedly caused the gash didn't come with it.

Its British assets would fetch billions.