Sentence examples for odd success from inspiring English sources

The police do have the odd success: this week they arrested five people when 1.7 tonnes of cocaine destined for Britain were discovered in sardine tins.

The odd success – Grease and Evita, for example – came along but was usually met with hostility by critics (the late Andrew Sarris said of Grease: "It's hard to see how it could be any less fun that it is").

There was the odd success story: a few arrests of men at the bottom of the terrorist food chain, but no one was under any illusion they were making much difference.

That is why the movies inspired by Leonard's fiction (a slew of disasters plus the odd success, like "Get Shorty," "Out of Sight," and "Jackie Brown," which was based on "Rum Punch") struggle to match his equilibrium.

After setting off bombs, its people fire a few shots in the air, then sit back as soldiers fire randomly into the crowd, hoping in vain to get the perpetrator but invariably killing innocents.For all their crudity, the security forces have pulled off the odd success, killing a lot of Boko Haram members in recent months.

The band continued its odd success and toured early in the year with a new wave 'sock puppet rock band' called Uncle Monsterface who opened for in March 2006.

You wondered what he would do next, what odd precarious success he would come up with; his books were such strange hybrids.

The odd commercial success helped more, with titles which caught the public mood such as Siddhartha and The Man Who Planted Trees.

However, decentralization has also a centrifugal effect when it allows the secessionist regions to get access to additional resources at the expense of the central government (the odd of success of separation depends on the conflict capabilities of the central government and the peripheral region).

You have the odd niche success, but by and large the major studios are all looking for their next financial hit or franchise.

CI: Confidence Intervals; OR: Odds Ratios; SUCCESS: United Chinese Community Enrichment Services Society VRHBB: Vancouver Richmond Health Board.