By making use of opportunities while in office he had become wealthy.
He became wealthy but didn't have time to enjoy it.
Because some of them have become wealthy, fund-raising for the museum has been easy.
All we did was to make the richest 1% become even wealthier.
Long was a wine and spirit merchant who had become very wealthy.
Some of the neighbors became wealthy and moved to more affluent communities.
He bought a chain of service stations, became wealthy, married and raised a family.
The business was successful, and over the space of a few years the Middletons are reported to have become very wealthy.
And by the end of the decade he had become fabulously wealthy.
As we become wealthier and older, it is inevitable that society will want to spend more on health.