Sentence examples for fetched the same from inspiring English sources

Assuming the land Schenck sold fetched the same amount, he would have sold some 4,000 acres of land.

While there's a lot of money in America, and big prices are fetched, the same thing happens in London, too".

In the 1620s, a single beaver pelt fetched the same amount of money required to rent nine acres of English farmland for a year.

Until recently, Dutch Nul artists remained relatively unknown and their works had not fetched the same prices as their contemporaries from other countries.

Ringo Starr's 200-acre 17th-century Surrey bolthole, Rydinghurst, fetched the same sum (several times the asking price) earlier this year.

George Stubbs's Gimcrack on Newmarket Heath, with a Trainer, a Stable-Lad, and a Jockey, fetched the same in 2011.

The watercress that grows wild in a stream fetches the same price as greens cultivated on a farm.

Many farmers see gold in today's green rush, where a pound of high-grade marijuana can fetch the same price as a ton of grapes.

But even if Freescale fetches the same valuation multiple in its planned initial public offering as its rival, NXP Semiconductors, its four buyers — Blackstone, Carlyle, Permira and TPG — would lose more than half their initial investment.

"There are very few Dutch artists for whom it doesn't matter if the work comes to market in Amsterdam, London, or New York," Mr. van Rosmalen said, meaning that such pieces fetch the same prices wherever they are sold.

At home, however, beside myself with excitement, each year I'd fetch the same biscuit tin of baubles down from the loft and hang them from the same tree.