"acquire a dimension" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to express the idea of gaining a new experience, skill, or aspect to something. For example, "Having a family of her own helped her to acquire a dimension of life she never knew before."
"With this measure, the existence of the Catholic Church in Russia acquires a dimension of normalcy under canon law," the pope's spokesman, Joaquín Navarro Valls, said today.
"Because now, faced with his unexpected death, the poetic themes of José Emilio, the sorrow, the melancholy, the lack of hope, the grief, the implacable passage of time, all acquire a new dimension, the dimension of a prophecy fulfilled".
As we become healthier, the concept of health has ballooned to acquire a fourth dimension of time.
Biblical disaster seems to suit fundamentalists; hence their interest in greenish books such as Martin Rees's "Our Final Century".This debate may soon acquire a geographical dimension.
In Clark's prose, even the inanimate can acquire a new dimension: a row of neat terrace houses exudes respectability as they "bore themselves with the prim self-effacement of maiden aunts".
Now we've got over the titillating shock of seeing living royals presented on stage, we can see that the play offers a meditation on the inviolable solitude of monarchy and uses a dense tissue of Shakespearean references to acquire a tragic dimension.
In Russia, the story seemed to acquire a political dimension.
This enables us to explain, not only the difference between conscious and unconscious perception, but also how analog states come to acquire a subjective dimension or 'feel'feel
In contrast, whether actualist HOT theory can reply adequately to the rock objection will depend on whether or not there is an adequate reply to the problem considered in section 4, which challenges the actualist HOT theorist to say why targeting a mental state with a HOT about that state should cause the latter to 'light up' and acquire a subjective dimension or feel.
So even with vines there's a lot of technical fooling around to pull it off". The technical difficulties, of course, quickly acquire a financial dimension.
