Example sentences of "we have been fortunate " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 've been fortunate that no one has seen us . |
| 2 | ‘ We 've been fortunate , so far , ’ the Governor said , looking down at the man lying in the bed . |
| 3 | ‘ We 've been fortunate , too , because Mike 's sister Judy has a three-year-old , and now a new baby , and lots of our friends have babies , so they 've lent us things and also been great with advice about their best buys . |
| 4 | We had been fortunate to have an excellent trekking crew and to enjoy good conditions for a memorable adventure . |
| 5 | After some search , we had been fortunate in finding accommodation , admittedly very cramped , in a mews flat in Kensington Court . |
| 6 | ‘ It is a sad fact of life that we have been fortunate enough to recruit staff with even greater levels of excellence , ’ says the company 's diplomatic chief executive , Michael Kerr-Dineen . |
| 7 | We have been fortunate in receiving donations of bricks for the facing wall and the required sand and gravel for the building work from two companies who operate in Shropshire . |
| 8 | For many years , we have been fortunate in the excellence of the Croydon borough council , and nowhere is this more true than in its education department . |
| 9 | This is within , as members will be aware , the overall financial position that the County Council finds itself in , of having to get its expenditure within the cap , and the fact that the increase in cap for the authority as a whole , does not in any way , mirror the increase in standard spending assessment for Social Services Committee , where we have been fortunate in terms the increase for this county , erm , and a variety of other factors which , which mean that it would be nice to think that where S S A increases for this Committee , it also increases for the County Council . |