Sentence examples for small bid from inspiring English sources

He'd arrived at the Castle the previous week, fresh from what he called a "small bid" — ninety days on Rikers Island — that had proved to be more destabilizing than either of his bigger bids (four and seven years, respectively).

The reason for the trend of curve is that it is hard to find a relay that makes a small bid when the value of β is small, and the PU intends to check more candidate relays to find larger reward when β is big.

Still, a small bidding war that included Farrar, Straus erupted for "Season's End".

According to the source, the go-shop clause was part of the price of being included in the small bidding group.

And she is very good, too, on subtle shifts of grief in bereavement, on the secret lives of children, and on small bids for freedom.

Institutional investors suffer a relatively small bid-asked spread when they invest in corporates, between one-fourth and three-eighths of a point.

Contending that its smaller bid is still superior, the First Union Corporation said yesterday that it would not raise its offer for the Wachovia Corporation and get into a bidding war with its rival suitor, SunTrust Banks.

Rennes are understood to prefer to sell Dembélé to Dortmund, who have already indicated that they would be willing to meet their valuation having previously had a smaller bid rejected.

BHP had made a smaller bid back in November, and it may have been encouraged to up the ante based on moves last week by Chinese mining company Chinalco to purchase a stake in Rio Tinto.Last year was the second worst on record for American airline arrival statistics.

He had nearly joined Liverpool for £9m the previous summer, but West Ham persuaded Leeds to accept a far smaller bid by offering a £1m bonus if the relegation-threatened Hammers beat the drop.

They make smaller bids at the beginning and then, just as things are tailing off, they throw down a large match bid, which everyone else feels obliged to match.