Sentences with phrase «times get lucky»

Sometimes you have to gamble, and some times you get lucky, but playing the odds your chances are statistically a lot better of hitting on a 1st rounder QB, than a 6th.

The one time you get lucky is not worth the ten times you get the OJ treatment.

It's not like people go around asking each other, «So, when's the last time you got lucky?»

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Not exact matches

I was lucky enough to get a contract gig that kept me working until my due date, but by the time I delivered, I was jobless and therefore ineligible for any paid leave.

«And the amount of travel far exceeds the vacation time I used to get, where I was lucky to see one new place a year.

They were lucky, they got the timing right, and after a painful couple of years figured out product / market fit, and went public.

He knows he's lucky to have survived; many companies fail not because their business models are flawed but because they just can't get money they're owed in time.

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I can't tell you how many times I've heard entrepreneurs say that they were lucky to get started in a down economy.

I was lucky enough to get on the precious metal industry in December when it was at its bottom but at the end of the day, I just got lucky with the timing.

Expensive unless you get lucky, but it lasts a LONG time and so is economical from the long view.

But his bet does underscore a powerful investing lesson we can all benefit from: You might get lucky every once in a while trying to time the market, but over time, it often doesn't even work for the pros.

It will save you loads of time, and we have even heard of lucky traders, who were able to get the right settings from the start and leave it to work, completely by itself, although we wouldn't recommend the risks of going down that path.

Through blogging, I've been lucky enough to get mentioned in the press, invited to conferences, meet industry influencers, gain the attention of clients and get hired for full - time marketing roles.

So will he get lucky the third time around?

The company got lucky with its timing because in 2008, Apple founded the app store where apps could be launched and distributed conveniently.

I don't think you can make that money in that short of a time unless you get lucky.

Perhaps you got lucky with some individual stocks as a teenager or used what you learned in finance class to buy just the right mutual fund at exactly the right time.

Even if that path is the path of disbelief until such time as you are lucky enough to be gifted with a visitation, epiphany or get struck by lightening.

Those liberal - leaning outlets determine the terms of debate and — if we are lucky — a spokesman for our causes will get (almost) equal time for a debate where the ground has been chosen by the opposition.

Likewise, we know how all faiths evolve, morph and change over time and do not think we were lucky enough to have been born in the one generation that «got it right.»

Likewise, we know how all faiths evolve, morph and change over time and do not think we were lucky enough to have been born in the one generation that «got it

If the intellectuals in the plays of Chekhov who spent all their time guessing what would happen in twenty, thirty, or forty years had been told that in forty years interrogation by torture would be practiced in Russia; that prisoners would have their skulls squeezed within iron rings; that a human being would be lowered into an acid bath; that they would be trussed up naked to be bitten by ants and bedbugs; that a ramrod heated over a primus stove would be thrust up their anal canal («the secret brand»); that a man's genitals would be slowly crushed beneath the toe of a jackboot; and that, in the luckiest possible circumstances, prisoners would be tortured by being kept from sleeping for a week, by thirst, and by being beaten to a bloody pulp, not one of Chekhov's plays would have gotten to its end because all the heroes would have gone off to insane asylums.

Every culture that has ever existed has its own god or gods, yet you believe you were lucky enough to have been born in the one time and place where we «got it right.»

Sometimes if I was lucky my Mom would make them for us after school and they'd still be warm, not quite set and all gooey by the time we got home.

I do love recording and sharing, but I'm lucky that I can write really fast, so can get lots of posts out... but it is time consuming.

I have been the lucky recipient of vanilla gifts and haven't had to buy it in a long time, but I'm going to get a batch started soon, because I'm getting low.

The last time I made similar cookies (Almond Butter Cookies) I got lucky when I added in flour and they happened to work.

You got lucky, this time.

This time I don't want to get lucky.

Sorry about ur squid allergy, but ur hubby is really lucky to get a good share I love it... but it has been a long time since I cooked it.U r right about cooking fish back home, especially at my hubby's place they cook fish fish and more fish... fOr my hubby buying fish is an addiction just like I buy other things..

It is definitely amazing being a student and getting to learn and read all the time, but sometimes it gets so wearing and you forget how lucky you are Thanks, Liz!

I think I got very lucky because the only time that I attempted a sourdough I didn't kill it — I was shocked.

Even less time: the family is lucky to get toast with their scrambled eggs.

http://www.rawliving.eu/yacon-syrup-500ml.html Oh, and yes I'm an Oxford uni graduate (Magdalen) I'm lucky that my Mum actually lives in Oxford so I still get to spend a lot of time there.

And with work and real life taking up most of my time, I only really have time to do recipe shoots once every few weeks, meaning I only get to update my blog once per month if I'm lucky.

Usually, I have to test a recipe multiple times, but I guess I got lucky with these.

I was lucky enough to be present every time she baked it, and every time it just kept getting better and better.

Every time I get to eat it, I consider myself the luckiest person on the planet.

Lucky for me, I wound up extending my stay and getting some extra time in London, with my man.

If you are ready to spent a lot of time looking at ways to emaciate your blog in the way of social networking and otherwise, and if you are lucky, you will get in a healthy amount of hits.

Lucky thing we can get decent apples any time of the year.

Substitutions only after 75 minutes, when we are chasing a game all he does every time is throw in all his available strikers hoping one of them gets lucky and setting up the same way for every game.

Elias is out here, with his guitar, and lucky for him, he's got time to sing a song with everyone unconscious.

You may get lucky with some, but most of the time it just won't work.

Occasionally he'll throw one down the middle, and that he's gotten away with it every time is the lucky part.

We got lucky this time, but Aurier's rashness has cost us multiple times before.

Arsenal's start to the season finally got up and running third time lucky against Watford on Saturday, although it has been a relatively shakey start for the Gunners in the league.

A tennis player for six years, he works in a Shanghai textile mill and says he feels lucky if he gets to practice three or four times a week.