1.   A group put together by Warner Bros. and Paramount was the only bidder as of Monday.

2.   A tender committee had awarded the shares to United Energy Systems of Ukraine, a gas distributor, the only bidder.

3.   Cimex AS, a Czech company, was the only other bidder.

4.   Crane was the only bidder on many New York City contracts for garbage trucks in recent years.

5.   Evans, according to sources, was the only bidder for this work and came back to Massachusetts earlier this month to discuss the contract.

6.   GTECH wound up as the only bidder and Kansas wound up paying more, according to Rendine.

7.   In the end Atlantic Shores Healthcare, which was formed around the time of the Florida bill, was the only bidder.

8.   It was the only bidder for that region.

9.   North Coast is not the only bidder backed by corporate giants in the current auction.

10.   Some critics have suggested that the potential losses built into the contract structure kept some companies from bidding against National Heritage, which was the only bidder.