Sentence examples for twice fortunate from inspiring English sources

The world number two was twice fortunate to see his opponent miss routine blacks, one to level at 2-2 anothertoextendextend a break of 55 which could have seen the score move to 5-3.

A sustained period targeting the pads of Cook saw the England captain twice fortunate to avoid being caught at short leg before lunch, only for the left-hander to fall in just that manner right after the break.

Seward is doubly fortunate.

Tom Glavine, the Braves' starter Thursday, used the word fortunate twice to describe how the Braves felt to be in first after two inconsistent months.

Saudi Arabia could have scored twice, with Mignolet fortunate not to concede a penalty when it was 2-0 in the second half, and there was a feeling that leaving Mousa Dembélé on the bench and playing De Bruyne as part of a two in central midfield placed too much defensive responsibility on Witsel's shoulders.

"Being among the group of 160 or so pilots who have ejected twice I feel particularly fortunate," says Penrice.  "If it wasn't for the ejector seat I wouldn't be here".

Cora searches for his name in the lineups affixed to the clubhouse door, but he is fortunate to start twice a week.

Clare continued to get let movement off the seam, Harris twice playing to leg and fortunate to see a leading edge loop over fielders.

If PSG were harbouring a sense of injustice, they were fortunate to escape twice in quick succession, first when Luiz appeared to catch Costa with an elbow off the ball and then when the striker was clearly tripped by Cavani in the area, only for penalty appeals to be ignored.

Taxpayers, though, were less fortunate; they invested twice as much in Goldman, paid 20% less than Mr. Buffett for stock, but only received $1.1 billion in profits.

Writing in his internet column, Blatter said: "When a Swiss farmer's neighbour has a cow while he has none, the less fortunate farmer will work twice as hard so that one day he can buy a cow as well.