Sentence examples for single auctions from inspiring English sources

In fact the words inscribed on his carriage doors exclaimed: 'Small profits do great things.' He bought big and bold, sometimes dropping tens of thousands of pounds at single auctions.

It can be customized to include single auctions that come with the standard price, bids, time left, feedback and high bidder.

Indeed, it will run a single auction for text, graphical and video ads.

Christie's said Tuesday's sale brought in more than $691.5m, the highest total for any single auction in history.

Sotheby's holds a single auction this week, a sale of books and manuscripts (June 19), which is its last of the 2007-08 season.

Christie's sale of contemporary art on Tuesday fetched more than $691.5 million to break the record for the highest total brought by any single auction.

LONDON — Jamming into a single auction anything that can be called art from the 7th to the 19th century is not a recipe for coherence.

This year's sale of the 4G airwaves designed to carry superfast internet connections, the biggest ever chunk of spectrum ever sold in a single auction, raised only £2.3bn.

Mr. Donahoe has led the acquisition of companies like the ticket exchange StubHub, helping eBay morph from a single auction-oriented marketplace into a portfolio of retail sites.

The founders had cataloged in journals, by hand, every single auction, including how the property performed before it was auctioned, why it was auctioned, what happened, and then a postmortem.

Tuesday night's sale, however, was the highest total for a single auction, not accounting for inflation, in Christie's history, officials at the auction house said, adding that about 30percentt of the buyers were new to Christie's.