Sentence examples for were quite fortunate from inspiring English sources
"We were quite fortunate he didn't get a red, there were would have been no complaints," said McClaren, who affected ignorance of the subsequent suspected elbow incident.
They were quite fortunate to gain a point against Tottenham Hotspur last time out, so they'll be hoping to improve on that performance when they travel to the Hawthorns.
Chelsea were quite fortunate against Shakhtar, relying on a couple of howlers from the Ukrainian champions' goalkeeper Andriy Pyatov.
"We were quite fortunate to have been 1-0 up at that period, but we would have liked to have seen things through.
"We were quite fortunate here at the hotel - we have a lot of stock here, we can handle our staff and our guests and we are dealing with some of the locals as well.
We've been quite fortunate in terms of record sales.
Until now we've been quite fortunate in that respect".
"It's a difficult thing to overcome, but I've been quite fortunate," said Mr. Farr, 75.
And we're quite fortunate that Mr. Obama did not, in fact, do a Cameron.
And we're quite fortunate that Obama did not, in fact, do a Cameron.
