Sentence examples for acquired less from inspiring English sources

Even then, the possession was not literal; my father is a librarian, and perhaps because he believed in collective property, or perhaps because my parents considered buying books for me an extravagance, or perhaps because people generally acquired less then than they do now, I had almost no books to call my own.

The retailer sold the 4.6% stake in Debenhams it acquired less than a week ago – netting a likely profit of around £5m – and ploughed a new investment into a complex option arrangement which could give the sports retailer influence over 6.6% of the department store chain.

But it's principally Mr. Sarkozy who has run into a blast of criticism in France and abroad for advocating — after the French police were fired on in an immigrant neighborhood — that individuals with citizenship acquired less than 10 years earlier be stripped of it for killing police officers.

On Monday, Vikings Coach Brad Childress — clearly chagrined that Moss went on for seven uninterrupted minutes about how much he missed the Patriots, while also questioning Childress's play-calling and whether the Vikings had listened to his insight about his former team — waived Moss, whom the Vikings acquired less than a month ago from New England.

Sub-elite referees have acquired less experience and still have to learn to pay attention to the key sources of information (MacMahon et al., 2014).

Caught unawares, the British were particular concerned about Punjab, a state that they had acquired less than a decade ago after two bitter wars with the Sikhs.

TRC Capital, based in Toronto, routinely makes below-market "mini tender" offers, which are defined as bids to acquire less than 5percentt of a company's stock.

Civitas says the problem is not confined to the top end of the market and that overseas buyers are also acquiring less expensive newbuild homes.

Teachers need to be able to identify the cohorts that are under-performing, which topics are being taught less effectively, and which skills their pupils are acquiring less fluently.

The Sara Lee Corporation advised shareholders yesterday not to support a below-market tender offer from the TRC Capital Corporation to acquire less than 1percentt of the Sara Lee's stock for $19.25 a share.

From numerical results, we can see that the adaptive division acquires less time required by bisection for each program.