Sentence examples for acquire earlier from inspiring English sources

Whenever I teach older students, whether they're undergraduates, graduate students or junior faculty, I find a vivid, pressing sense of how much they need the skill they didn't acquire earlier in life.

So far, he is already pursuing one of those goals: The hostile bid that was announced June 6 has created so much uncertainty about PeopleSoft's future and that of J. D. Edwards & Company -- the software company that PeopleSoft agreed to acquire earlier this month -- that some potential clients are being advised not to place orders.

In January Compaq announced it would acquire DEC for $9.6 billion.

He sometimes acquires 1,000 pieces a month.

China Water was acquired this year by the Heckmann Corporation of Palm Desert, Calif.

He later acquired 1,400 surrounding acres for more than $10 million.

The final three, acquired this year, took them past 900.

He was acquired last June from the Los Angeles Galaxy.

Rational Investors was acquired last year by Standard & Poor's.

Transamerica was acquired last year by the Dutch insurer Aegon.

offices of ShopSanity, an e-commerce startup it acquired earlier this year.