Sentence examples for rather fortunate from inspiring English sources

Whereas I [was] rather fortunate".

I was rather fortunate to stumble on one despite already laying down so much.

Lee Jackson wasted another chance from a Smith combination, then Salford retook the lead with a rather fortunate try.

Having been rather fortunate to beat Germany in the semi-finals, this definitely feels like a missed opportunity.

I manage to live a rather fortunate bohemian life and often indulge myself far beyond my means.

They were unearthed in 2005, but were not returned to him; as it turned out, this was rather fortunate.

Thanks to a rather too fortunate coincidence, she gets to know some other prostitutes.

Why, wail most pensioners-to-be, didn't our fund managers put our money into something safer, like dear old government bonds?Mexico's future pensioners seem rather more fortunate.

Interestingly, "House on Fire" is a bit of a musical anomaly in that none of its 12 songs include gender-specific pronouns — a fact which Herndon insists that this was not a conscious effort but rather a fortunate "accident".

Malouf traces the modern understanding of happiness back to Thomas Jefferson's "pursuit of happiness," arguing that Jefferson understood happiness to mean "materially fortunate," rather than emotionally fulfilled, but that "he was led, in the act of writing itself, to speak more radically than he knew".

Waltz's Blofeld (if indeed he is) resembles the rather more follicly-fortunate version of the character from Diamonds Are Forever in which he was played by Charles Gray.