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Examples of lucky

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There are those who are lucky or clever enough to possess dollars.
Spurling rejects this as an argument that blames some women, the 'lucky daughters', for denying marriage for their 'unlucky sisters'.
I was equally lucky in the choice of collaborators and interlocutors.
At the age of four she was lucky enough to be boarded out to a relatively good farm where she stayed for three years.
We are lucky that such an astute sociologist was at work analyzing the changes as they happened.
We were lucky; other people ended up in refugee camps.
In that respect, my generation of television playwrights was lucky.
The general reader or student for whom the author presumably intends this book would be lucky not to discover it.
It would be wrong to suggest that the future professors were continuously lucky throughout these five years.
We think that you are lucky to be concerned with engineering design.
Winners might cheat, they might be consistently lucky, or they might try harder.
I am lucky to be able to draw on both cultures.
It is lucky that you can get it but it's difficult.
We were lucky that those factors did not degenerate into an outright explosion.
If we are 'lucky' the total black area is simply connected, that is, it has no holes and its interior is connected.
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