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.
The clubhouses, and county parties, still control the appointment of candidates – the Democratic bosses picked Mr. Fidler to run for the seat vacated when Carl Kruger pleaded guilty to an unfortunate number of felonies.
"I recognize some of this has to do with lifestyle and a lack of education, and I know that some of this has to do with an unfortunate number of individuals who are inactive," Ms. James said.
Lagging in voter polls by impressive margins — an unfortunate number of voters seem not to know his name — Mr. Lhota decided to get their attention by scaring the devil out of them.
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.
When the hotel discovered that the number of private rooms in its spa was four — an unfortunate number, because it sounds, in Chinese, like "death" — designers added a line of fake doors across the hall, to suggest a total of eight, which is closer to "get rich".
