Sentence examples for minor fortune from inspiring English sources
He drives a thirteen-year-old BMW and spends part of his minor fortune investing in his six companies.
In fact, she decided that her hand-painted English ceramics, a minor fortune in antiques, were just right for the informal gathering she gave the other night.
This metaphor has been explored by writers like Daniel Dennett and Susan Blackmore along with lesser lights, many of whom, Mr. Aunger notes, have written about memes, making "major reputations and minor fortunes".
For replication, they would charge a small fortune.
Lumb also had some minor early fortune, mishooking Awana three times in his first over - for a six, a four and a two.
Gayle had one minor moment of fortune on 29 when a wrong-footed Morgan, perhaps losing the ball in the bright floodlights, found himself over-committed as the big left-hander pulled Samit Patel high to the boundary.
Into Sugar's later life crawls a befuddled lost soul, William Rackham, heir to a minor perfume and cosmetics fortune.
It didn't follow any trends or sound like anything on the radio and it didn't even sound exactly like Sugartooth's self-titled 1994 debut, which yielded the minor alternative hit "Sold My Fortune".
Conversation topics included Tay-Sachs disease, the fortunes of the Trenton Thunder minor league baseball team and whether white chocolate is really chocolate.
In a few months, he's gone from the major leagues of a Fortune 500 company to the minors as chief of a private company with a lofty mission to match the speed and innovation of archrival Amazon.com (AMZN).
