Sentences with phrase «slightly edging over their competitors»

In an interesting post-auction wrap up Kelly Crow of the Wall Street Journal reported that even though most of the media melted over the Bacon sale, the tallied sales numbers from both auction houses show a much more balanced picture with Christie's slightly edging over their competitors and selling $ 1,076,080,500 worth of art versus Sotheby's $ 1,021,465,430.