Sentence examples for for the stake from inspiring English sources
The company paid £14.2m for the stake.
The lender expects to pay about $450 million for the stake.
Canal Plus said it would pay for the stake in the channels with Vivendi stock.
The investment firm beat Mahindra & Mahindra, an Indian automaker, in a competition for the stake.
The firm outbid Donald E. Graham, the chairman of the Washington Post Company, for the stake.
Maybe to Microsoft, that made it well worth overpaying for the stake itself.
Vivendi offered 2.44 billion Tunisian dinars ($1.8 billion) for the stake.
Last August Cisco agreed to invest $1 billion in KPMG in return for the stake.
BSkyB's directors said Mr Murdoch's opening offer of £7.8 billion ($11.5 billion) for the stake undervalued the company.
The government last month rejected a €622 million offer from Emma Delta, which was the sole bidder for the stake.
But the bid was less than half the 1.48 billion euros that Ryanair first bid for the stake in 2006.
