Sentences with phrase «not like winning the lottery»

$ 18,000 is a nice sum of money, but it's not like winning the lottery either — it's not enough to quit your day job and start living it up.

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That unexpected windfall may feel like winning the lottery, but if you aren't careful, it could wreak havoc on your business.

It is like saying «We don't really buy lottery tickets, but trust us, you'll get paid if you win.»

It's like saying that you don't need a job because you «could» end up winning the mega lottery if you're lucky enough to happen to find the winning ticket.

We pray for our brothers and sisters around the world, dying and starving and losing some cosmic lottery that we didn't ask to win and, from far away it looks like we are all losing but there are stories of redemption there, too, and isn't prayer more about us being changed into God's character than actually about moving his hand in our direction?

Uncertain hope is like saying «I hope I win the lottery, but I know I probably won't.

Like, I can root to win the lottery, but I'm not gonna plan on it.

It won't be like winning the lottery taxes.

life is all about gambles, you win some you lose some, we have taken a gamble on the likes of Walcott, Gibbs and its not paid off so lets cut our losses and move them on, if they go to another club and realise their so called potentials so be it, we can not keep giving them chances in the hope they will come good when all indications shows they are just average players who won the lottery with Arsenal....

I reckon (and I know this won't go down too well), even someone like Alan Pardew could walk into Arsenal now, look at all the players at his disposal and think he's won the lottery having never had so much talent to at his disposal.

Yeah we know 95 % of our dream transfers do not materialize Transfer season is like deciding how your gonna spend the big lottery win Its fun and fanciful but fills in time till the first preseason games.

I know that at first glance, not many people would compare Arsenal with Man City at the minute, because the last 10 years or so have seen the two clubs operating about as differently as possible, with Arsene Wenger working on a shoestring and our trophy winning ability dwindling year on year, while a succession of City bosses have been throwing money around like lottery winners and propelling the club to it's most successful period.

You have won in the lottery and you do not need to sweat like I did for long years, and fight for every pound»,» Wenger said.

When the phone rings and it doesn't wake your napping baby (this once in a lifetime event is like winning the lottery).

Just like so many lottery winners have gone broke not long after they win, you could find yourself with the weight back on.

youth often affords only a limited view and i just wanted to reassure very sick and older ppl (like myself) that you rly are sick, not lazy, when you know damn well winning the lottery or hearing your first grandchild was born or any other super-exciting news wouldnt lift you up or energize you as there was just nothing left inside.

But like the lottery, just because you play doesn't mean you're going to win.

It's like inverted curb - crawling, as she drives around seeking strangers for apparent seduction, the blokes generally feeling they've won the lottery when a little small talk — establishing, usually, that they won't be missed — leads to a lift from, well, Scarlett Johansson.

Getting an award like the BFCA is nothing more than getting a lottery ticket for the big draw, the excitement of being in the hunt for the big prize is obviously there but ultimate gratification solely rests with the outcome of the lottery, the ticket is thrown away after the lottery winner is announced, regardless of whether you have won or not.

But thousands of kids and their families who have won the lottery (literally) and have been given a shot at a good life via a good education by the likes of Eva Moskowitz's Harlem Success Academies, KIPP Schools and the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program undoubtedly won't.

And to be completely realistic, if you're a genre writer — romance, mystery, horror, thrillers and the like — your odds of getting reviewed by the majors aren't much better than winning the lottery.

Like those of us who buy a lottery ticket, she had a vague notion that she could win the big prize but she didn't really expect to be chosen.

I would love to win the lottery and donate, on a regular basis... not just once... to Kindness Ranch Animal Sanctuary, the Longmont Humane and a few other small rescues that focus on breed dogs like Greyhounds.

I think I need to win the lottery or rob a bank to many interesting games and not enough money to buy them all.The Witcher 3, Batman Arkham Knight, MGS5, Uncharted 4 and Battlefront 3 are my favorites but there are easily 10 other games I would like to play not to mention the next FIFA, CoD, PES, AC and NFS are not even on that list

Moreover, it is not meaningful to find «correspondences» between components that have distinctly different frequencies, as shown by OBLIQUE lines in Scafetta figure: if they don't match, don't match, is like saying you «almost win» the lottery because the winning number is «almost» yours.

While you're probably not going to make a massive change in your finances, short of a windfall like winning the lottery, there are plenty of things you can do to ensure you're bringing in enough monthly income to live comfortably.

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Who wouldn't like to win a lottery?

Perhaps you will win the lottery and will be able to call it home, if not I am sure a place like this is in your future.