Sentence examples for acquire slightly from inspiring English sources

As part of the deal, Deloitte has agreed to acquire slightly less than 10percentt of Intira, which counts among its investors Lehman Brothers, the Mayfield Fund and New Enterprise Associates.

The institution, which is based in London and promotes free market economies in former Soviet countries, said it would acquire slightly more than 6 percent of the Micex-RTS stock exchange in Moscow.

City Manager Kevin Murphy said the proposed agreement with Chrysler calls for the city to acquire slightly more than two acres and relocate six businesses, then provide the land to Chrysler at a reduced price.

These cells acquire slightly different migratory properties, and their ingression is slightly delayed.

And since people acquired slightly different genes, collectively about a third of the Neanderthal genome is still floating around in modern populations.

However, "reading" was acquired slightly quicker by the participants with autism than the non-disabled participants, and the participants with autism also showed some evidence of better transfer and maintenance than the non-disabled participants did.

Porsche announced late Monday — around the time Mr. Merckle was taking his own life — that it had acquired slightly more than 50percentt of Volkswagen shares, up from a 42.6percentt voting stake in October.

The company was privatized and renamed Acron, and Kantor acquired slightly more than 31% of it at auction in 1993 and eventually built it into a chemicals and fertilizer empire, which is now publicly traded.

MCF-7/BCRP cells also acquired slightly more resistance to the PI3K inhibitors (Figure 1C and data not shown), but the degrees of resistance did not seem to be significant considering the degrees of resistance against anticancer drugs.

Quite intriguingly, however, the mechanisms in the two organisms also appear to have acquired slightly diverged characteristics as human Plk1 and PRC1 have evolved an interaction mechanism that it is clearly different from Drosophila.

It is more delicate than traditional durum wheat pasta, and can acquire a slightly crumbly texture if overcooked.