Sentence examples for he acquired about from inspiring English sources

In 1972 he acquired about 100 works by Kandinsky from the artist's widow.

He acquired about 50 American pianos -- some donated, some bought -- intending to invite visitors to play the models on display.

"It's very subtle," Ms. Steir said of the piece, which she acquired about six years ago.

Mr. Icahn announced last fall that he had acquired about 5.54 million shares in Netflix for an average price of about $58 each.

Mr. Felton said that, in addition to making his own films, he had acquired about 100 other Puerto Rican films and distributed some of them in the 1960's and 1970's.

Under the terms of the deal, GE Capital will acquire about $7.5 billion of MetLife's deposits.

The Conservation Fund will acquire about 5,000 acres in Florida and 500 acres in North Carolina.

Anthracite's SEC filings say it plans to acquire about $1.5 billion in assets backed by just $300 million in equity.

When he was a child, he had terrible separation anxiety; as he grew up, he acquired phobias about public speaking, flying, fainting, heights, closed spaces, germs, vomiting, and cheese.

Along the way he acquired firm ideas about history writing that he set out in the widely quoted preface to the first volume of his history of the crusades: "Faced by the mountainous heap of the minutiae of knowledge and awed by the watchful severity of his colleagues, the modern historian too often takes refuge in learned articles or narrowly specialized dissertations.

In the process, he acquired an American girlfriend (about whom he wrote abundantly and explicitly to Simone de Beauvoir: "I am killed by passion and lectures").