Sentences with phrase «knockdown prices from»
In March 1918, the National Gallery director Sir Charles Holmes and the then Treasury adviser John Maynard Keynes travelled to Paris on a secret wartime mission to buy up masterpieces of French 19th - century art at knockdown prices from the posthumous sale of Degas's art collection.
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In one documented by the Africa Progress Panel, mining rights in the Democratic Republic of Congo were sold for knockdown prices in deals that involved a series of secretly - owned firms in the BVI, leaving it unclear who had benefited from what may have been corrupt deals.
Jack was the hands - on guy, using money from his trust fund to buy equipment at knockdown prices; Malcolm scanned raw sequences using a customized program and also organized their gene hunts.