Sentence examples for largest auction from inspiring English sources

Last year Bernard Arnault's LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton bought the auctioner Phillips, which in turn acquired Tajan, France's largest auction house, this year.

Talk story about the largest auction of railroad memorabilia ever held.

In addition, eBay, the largest auction site on the web, has a version called AdContext.

Luxurious trappings have always filled two of the world's largest auction houses, Christie's and Sotheby's.

He said that the Skinner sale might be the largest auction of firefighting memorabilia ever held.

"Someone has said Phillips is only the third-largest auction house in the world," he said, "but in fact we are the largest auction house in the world not to be under criminal investigation".

And it has the largest auction-based marketplace of buyers (called AdWords) from its dominance in Paid Search.

When the agency came after Prosper.com, the largest auction-style player, last year, Chief Executive Chris Larsen pushed back, arguing that given the site's transparency, lenders knew full well the risks they were taking.

"In answer to the question, 'Is this really art?' " he wrote to a reporter, "we offer representatives from Phillips Auctioneers, the third-largest auction house in the world, which is lending its prestige to this event and providing its services at no charge".

This was before Hong Kong became the world's third-largest auction market.

Sales of art, jewelry, antiques and wines have made Hong Kong the world's third-largest auction market, after New York and London.