Obtain in example sentence

In our own research at Fudan University in Shanghai, my two PhD students, Liheng Xu and Huihui Zhang, and I managed to obtain a reasonably broad supply of official statistics: the 2005-2012 data for four provinces, the 2005-2009 data for three provinces, and monthly data for 2010-2012 for four of these seven provinces.

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One day, while my father was working on a file for us to obtain French nationality, I happened to see some documents that caught my attention.

And I found myself in the places where people are fighting every day to survive and can't even obtain a meal.

And I go to those shops, if there are any, or out to the fields to see what they can get, and they cannot obtain the nutrition.

I mean, why not utilize this technology, which massively broadens the boundaries of what's possible, accept that many of the things that happen in our world now go recorded, and we can obtain that information through social media?

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