Sentence examples for lottery about from inspiring English sources

In a weekly lottery, about a third of the Dutch population waits for the one-in-430,000 draw of a winning postcode.

The director of "O.G". is Madeleine Sackler, who is best known for her 2010 documentary, "The Lottery," about a Harlem charter school and the debate around school choice.

The American, Patricia Wood, was chosen for her debut novel, "Lottery," about an orphaned 31-year-old man with an I.Q. of 76 who wins the Washington State Lottery.

Among the miserabilism came uplifting novels such as Patricia Wood's Lottery, about a man with learning disabilities who wins the lottery; and Charlotte Mendelson's When We Were Bad, "which had us laughing out loud".

The latest: a Lifetime TV series called The Lottery about the ultimate birth dearth -- a world in which no one is capable of having children -- no way, no how.

I wrote a book called Life Lessons from the Lottery about why people like lottery winners and professional athletes run through their money in a short period of time.

How did the postcode lottery come about?

The lottery spends about $60 million annually on advertising.

It's against the spirit of what the lottery is about".

Moreover, in last year's random admissions lotteries, about 11,600 students entered drawings to fill about 2,000 open seats in Harlem alone.

Indeed, Mr Montias has turned up a greater number of colourful anecdotes about Vermeer's scandalous grandmother, Neeltge Goris who was responsible for a series of lottery swindles and about his violent and mentally unstable brother-in-law Willem Bolnes, than about the painter himself.