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People will try to tell you that all the great opportunities have been snapped up.

Apple's products are now being snapped up in Delhi and Dalian just as in Dublin and Dallas.

Homeowners, armed with easy credit , snapped up properties as if they were playing Monopoly .

In 2009 it snapped up the Swiss subsidiary of Dresdner Bank, one ailing German bank which had merged with another, Commerzbank.

Hungry for "diversity" and rushing into relatively rundown black neighbourhoods, they snapped up the only housing bargains left.

With just 40, 000 tickets remaining for the athletics, they were all snapped up in the first 15 minutes.

Last week, buyers snapped up YG Entertainment's stock like teenagers trying to score tickets to their favorite boy band's show.

The only bright news was that house sales rose 6. 5% between November and December, as buyers snapped up bargains.

Tickets for his live show are snapped up in minutes. Audience often number fifty thousand.

The tickets for the concert were snapped up in two hours.

The same architect said he snapped up every seminar, every project, to keep himself circulating and in touch with people.

Hughton has so far snapped up James Perch and Dan Gosling over the summer and the capture of Campbell will be a welcome boost for the club.

Unfazed, Mr. Stevens, a 60-year-old entrepreneur, and his wife, Nancy, snapped up the house for $470, 000 in September.

In addition landowners warned that the land could be snapped up by industrialists with no concern for the environment or landscape value.

Nomura snapped up the Asian and European arms of Lehman Brothers in a bid to become a global investment bank.

Google recently snapped up Pittsburgh Pattern Recognition, the firm which owns the programme the researchers used for their tests.

Traders snapped up safe-haven Treasurys, pushing yields ever lower. And a key measure of volatility and investor fears spiked.

Left to his own devices he would have snapped up any offer to play football.

The larger deals involved China's energy and financial services companies, which snapped up minority stakes in rivals across the globe.

Canny investors promptly snapped up the depressed stock, realising it was the smartest move HP has made in years.

Hayes told Bob that he would take him skiing , and Bob snapped up the offer .

The authorized biography of the late Apple CEO has been snapped up by Chinese since the books hit the shelves.

Elsewhere across the region, banks rallied as investors snapped up some severely sold off financials.

It has snapped up contracts even in the home markets of its European competitors.

When real estate prices bottomed out during the recession, many local architects snapped up these properties for themselves.

Another of our holdings has snapped up a small competitor that went bust this year.

Investors seem happy to stump up. In August they snapped up $4. 5 billion in Petronas bonds, its first issuance since 2002.

Similarly, cheap shares have been snapped up and are no longer cheap.

Gold this year has been buoyed by exchange-traded funds, which snapped up bullion as they attracted waves of new investors.

Their TV was a present and their range and fridge were snapped up from websites offering second-hand goods.

Investors have snapped up Apple's stock this year, pushing it up at a pace well ahead of other big technology issues.

Almost 5m of those were snapped up in the UK.

In 2003, Robert Provost snapped up a $2. 5 million villa with its own boat dock in Sarasota, Fla.

Marketing was a dirty word in China less than a generation ago, but even state-owned companies are have snapped up Olympic sponsorships.

On Tuesday, the first day of the Shanghai auto show, luxury carmakers encountered revved-up interest as their vehicles were snapped up.

Coates became Liverpool's sixth major signing of the summer before Craig Bellamy was snapped up on transfer deadline day.

The kind of articles were quickly snapped up.

The big five banks snapped up the leading stockbroking firms in the 1990s, becoming universal banks.

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Investors also snapped up some of Wednesday's worst losers, including Microsoft and Apple, driving the Nasdaq up more than 1 percent.

Many of the graduates have to compete with cheap migrant workers, especially in service jobs, but most of them are snapped up quickly.

Jointly guaranteed bonds sold to raise money for the current bail-out funds are being eagerly snapped up by investors.

The launch levels indicate a modest concession over outstanding Berkshire issues, but will likely be snapped up by bond buyers.

A spike in oil prices helped lift materials and energy stocks. Investors also snapped up beaten-down stocks in the financial sector.

These packages are being snapped up by City companies eager to ingratiate themselves with favoured investors.

Whereas Oracle has snapped up dozens of firms, SAP has grown mainly organically. The takeover of Sybase will help SAP to catch up.

In Nanjing in mid-July, 3, 000 people snapped up tickets for the right to purchase an apartment in a new development with only 600 units.

Already, Bank of America has snapped up a $2 billion stake in Countrywide, a troubled mortgage lender.

He said buyers snapped up his stock of 3, 000 masks, and he has put in a rush order for another 6, 000.

According to Bernstein, they were quickly snapped up by a savvy buyer who needed "new" suits for interviews.

Chinese films snapped up five Golden Goblet Awards at the 2011 Shanghai International Film Festival, which concluded on Sunday night.

In January the firm snapped up Quattro Wireless, which specialises in advertising on mobile handsets.

His new thriller is so popular, fans have snapped up copies as fast as bookstores get them.

Investors, meantime, snapped up U. S. Treasurys and the Japanese yen, assets viewed as relatively safe in times of turmoil.

More than 15 units of one of the show's most expensive items, a $1, 200 refrigerator from Haier, a Chinese company, were snapped up.

Most of the companies getting snapped up are smaller than SRA, but still attract premiums.

A host of government conglomerates have snapped up coal mining companies in Shanxi Province.

Tickets for the show are being snapped up since selling started earlier this month.

At a recent US sale organised by Julien's Auctions, approximately 35 per cent of items were snapped up by Asian buyers.

The obvious answer is that having seen Motorola get snapped up, Nokia might be next.

These companies have not only taken on Western incumbents, snapped up Western companies and launched exciting new products.

Buyers for the movie who spotted the firm on the internet have snapped up more than 80 of their sticks.

A US corporate raider, Samuel Heyman, snapped up 8. 8 per cent of the LSE through derivatives shortly after Nasdaq announced its bid.

Their work was snapped up by a new generation of young collectors.

Our heads snapped up at the same time to see Mike and Jessica about fifty yards away, walking toward us.

Private equity groups have also snapped up Casema and Essent Kabelcom, big Dutch cable operators.

Studio flats meant for artists-in-residence get snapped up by bankers.

The cheapest articles at the sale were quickly snapped up.

More than 200, 000 replica shirts were snapped up by fans last week as Beckham-mania took root in Southern California and beyond.

The treasures were snapped up by collectors at high prices.

The cheapest articles were quickly snapped up.

The cheapest article at the sale is quickly snapped up.

In the east, they snapped up New York's Rockefeller Center.

Iodide tablets were also snapped up at many pharmacies in Beijing and Shanghai as of Thursday morning, according to state-run China Daily.

When any skilled workers are laid off they are instantly snapped up by other firms.

We have snapped up two major stars who are at the peak of their careers.

Last year, even as the recession began to bite, companies snapped up the 65, 000 visas available in just one day.

Now shelving and storage units are being snapped up.

Such talk is reminiscent of Japan's economic heyday in the late 1980s and early 1990s, when Sony snapped up Columbia studios.

He snapped up the offer.

Then he snapped up old state steel firms in eastern Europe.

How many are being snapped up by local and foreign investors, turning such paradise islands into tourist havens.

Last November, capitalizing on Argentina's devalued currency, he snapped up 120 acres of farmland for just $140, 000.

In May Tencent, another online giant, snapped up 16% of eLong, a Chinese online travel company that is part-owned by Expedia.

The new paintings were soon snapped up at high prices.

This week investors were so eager to buy bonds they snapped up $5 billion worth of new Wal-Mart debt at pitifully low yields.

I snapped up the coat at that cheap price.

The answer may depend on how many of those shares get snapped up by the state.

"We take machines as part-exchange, but they tend to last a long time and get snapped up very quickly, " adds Ricketts.

They snapped up 75% of recent IPOs.

A stampede of energy companies has snapped up exploration rights, drilling more than 700 wells last year alone, and building pipelines.

Last year, it bought Columbia Management Group from Bank of America, having the year before snapped up J& W Seligman.

The Taiwan dollar, for example, recorded its biggest daily gain since 2000 this week as foreigners snapped up Taiwanese shares.

beating 10, 000 contestants, Cheung walked away with first prize and was snapped up by a record label.

It is a standing joke among Chinese travellers that many products snapped up abroad bear "Made in China" labels.

Just a month ago, Chinese buyers in Hong Kong snapped up a similar vase for $18 million and another for a record $32 million.

His books, though poorly written, were all snapped up after he won the Nobel Prize

could issue bonds which would be snapped up by mainlanders

Paw print: These fetching key rings are being snapped up by animal-loving owners

are snapped up by gangs of red-rumped swallows