Sentence examples for unfortunate number from inspiring English sources

An unfortunate number of his former teammates have ended up broke, or divorced, or worse.

The Senate bill contains an unfortunate number of compromises, made under pressure from marketing industry lobbyists.

Here, too, there were an unfortunate number of technical glitches and a certain shortness of breath to the phrasing.

This case has shown that punch card balloting machines can produce an unfortunate number of ballots which are not punched in a clean, complete way by the voter.

Pulling out of the Council of Europe body – which the home secretary, Theresa May, and the justice secretary, Chris Grayling, both contemplate – would "certainly send an unfortunate number of messages", Neuberger added.

In fact, having a movie in the can (however chipmunked it may end up) puts him a step ahead of several of the most promising directors of recent memory, their unfortunate number rounded up by the Playlist.

"We're trying to predict what could be some very unfortunate numbers coming our way and have tried to cut the spending considerably," Mr. Paterson said.

A few multimedia touches and an unfortunate dance number do nothing to enliven the proceedings.

"But it is unfortunate a number of players are out of the game, a lot of them starting players - it would've made it a different game".

Even more unfortunate, a number of these ingredients aren't suitable for vegans.

"Thomas has given some sort of focus to this over the last few years and it hasn't gone that successfully though things this year did improve a little bit and he was unfortunate with a number of accidents.