Sentence examples for he secured about from inspiring English sources

From the temple archives he secured about 30,000 inscribed clay tablets yielding much information on temple administration, commerce, farming, and stock raising.

He secured about $20 million to allow more 4-year-olds into pre-kindergarten programs — short of the universal pre-K he had campaigned on.

When he came home in the fall of 1978, he felt "secure" about his reporting skills, he told us.

He secured no answers at all about the legality of drone strikes overseas (which are, let us not forget, the only drone strikes to have ever happened, outside the feverish imaginations of the black-helicopters crowd).

Already, Blake has secured about a quarter of the $1 million he needs for production, but his main challenge is securing additional investors.

Last year, he appeared at a news conference at the park to highlight his having secured about $66 million overall to make improvements at the center.

So far, it has secured about $60 million.

She said that Mr. Clooney had already secured about a dozen fellow celebrities to participate.

Lee and Randolph each secured about three more rebounds a game than Stoudemire did.

That aside, International Trade has so far secured about 10% of the trade negotiators it needs.

The MP was defeated in the elections of 1991 but secured about one-fourth of the vote.