Jonty – who, serendipitously, happened to have written a book about mindfulness – got me a place on a six-week, NHS-funded MBCT course at the Maudsley hospital in south London.
There is no pressure to make referrals, but connections often happen serendipitously.
An ozone-based alternative to the company's environmentally unfriendly bleach for paper and pulp, for example, required customers to undertake prohibitively expensive redesigns of their mills.The company's saviour came serendipitously in the form of a new system for manufacturing gases at small plants erected on its customers' sites.
First, perhaps serendipitously, higher public spending is already on the way.
After Cornwall, the second, less advertised leg of his holiday was, serendipitously, to Turkey.
As the doubters prophesy, their coalition could well fall apart long before then.Still, at their serendipitously sunny press conference, in the garden of Number 10 on May 12th, the optimism was almost irresistible, and so (apologies) were the nuptial metaphors.
As Richard Florida argues in "The Rise of the Creative Class", talented knowledge workers are choosing to cluster together in cities such as New York, Los Angeles, London and Shanghai so they can interact with each other easily, both formally and serendipitously.
Serendipitously, a burst occurred in the same part of the sky as the sun, and RHESSI saw it.
Yet in few cases did they come together quite as serendipitously as in the creation of Betfair, one of Britain's most successful internet start-ups.The idea was of its time, arriving at the end of the dotcom boom.
For BA, the strength of sterling has hurt as well, making London an expensive destination for travellers and reducing the value of BA's foreign revenues.BA's cost-cutting was a tactical response to all this and to a much-predicted downturn, but it was soon to lead, somewhat serendipitously, to a strategy.
In 1856 the first commercially successful synthetic dye, mauve, was serendipitously discovered by British chemist William H. Perkin, who recognized and quickly exploited its commercial significance.
