Sentence examples for lucky half from inspiring English sources

Even unemployment insurance underwrites only the lucky half of workers who have a formal job.

It would therefore regard university students as the lucky half whose future is relatively assured.

Probably half these kids will turn out bitter and evil and scheming, but, if we're lucky, half the kids will figure out that the prevailing corporate system of doing business is utterly screwed.

In this sense, he is in the lucky half of the population.

If you are among what I consider to be the lucky half who do experience strong emotions, what makes you cry the good kind of tears?

If half the time we block the left side, and half the time we block the right side, he will still be "lucky" half the time despite his bias.

Hammond's opposite number was Alan Melville, who had grown so sick of losing the toss that he abandoned the lucky half-crown he had been using, and threw, instead, a three-penny bit lent him by one of his players.

For most people, it is enough that the latter deal is no longer secret or glorified.In the luckier half of the continent, history has a much shorter half-life.

We're given a window of several hours — if we're lucky, or half a day if we're not — when the service guy will show up.

There's a heavy drug problem - at the chemist on a Wednesday the queue is a mile long with addicts and you are lucky if half of them have two legs.

Even if you turn out to be one of the lucky ones, half of the people around your kitchen table this morning will at some point sit in a doctor's surgery and be given the news that they have cancer.