Sentence examples for single bids from inspiring English sources

As from September '93 we will give no straight guarantees, make no advances on single bids, make no loans below Libor and offer trade vendor nothing better than 5percentt with vendor paying his own insurance.

For instance, in the Teapot Dome scandal in the 1920s, Attorney General William Daugherty appeared to have resolved the issue of whether Secretary of the Interior Albert Fall had wrongly issued valuable oil leases on the basis of single bids to political friends of President Harding: Daugherty conducted an inquiry and issued his finding in 1922 that there was no wrongdoing.

It dropped dead without attracting a single bid.

Not a single bid came in from the room as the object appeared on the block.

A Munch seaside view, also from the Fauve period, dropped unwanted without a single bid.

It did not elicit a single bid and fell unsold at $3.7 million.

It miraculously sold on a single bid for £181,250, despite its poor quality.

Although the work is a masterpiece, not a single bid came in.

Mr. Graham bought it at Christie's in 1994 with a single bid of £3.7 million.

You need up to six credits to make a single bid.

Then there was a rare, early Turner that did not get a single bid.