Sentence examples for won a fortune from inspiring English sources

Daily Mail UK reports that Vivian Nicholson won a fortune in Britain's football pools in 1961: £152,300, or the equivalent of £3 million today.

We seem to have entered dim-bulb territory: People are eager to believe that Woody has won a fortune and refuse to hear David tell them that the prize isn't real.

But George Soros, the banker who bet against sterling in 1992 and won a fortune, was surely right today when promoting The Tragedy of the EU, his new book on Europe's weakness.

Good too to see Gary McNair back at the Traverse with A Gambler's Guide to Dying, about a man who won a fortune on the 1966 World Cup and then waged it again on his own survival.

He played the part of the man who comes to tell the hero that he has won a fortune on the football pools and stays to become his butler.

Alexander Payne's monochrome road movie amounts to a catchy, maudlin ballad of the American Depression, eased along by an over-insistent score and yet anchored by a robust performance from Bruce Dern as Woody Grant, an ornery old alcoholic who thinks he's won a fortune.

Is the man we've seen winning a fortune at roulette cheating?

21 Robert Luketic directed this drama, based on a true story, about a group of M.I.T. students who become expert card counters and win a fortune in Las Vegas.

He tries to clean out the Deauville casino, but in an ironic twist wins a fortune legally while his raid is in progress.

In fact, he says, he'd written most of this tale of a delightedly thuggish criminal who wins a fortune on the lottery before he left Britain, for family reasons, a year or so ago.

When it was ahead at the first fence, he started shouting loud encouragement and jumping up and down like a schoolboy expecting to win a fortune, desisting only when the horse crossed the finishing line almost last.