noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
amassed...fortune
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He amassed a fortune after the war.
cost a fortune/cost the earth (= have a very high price )
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If you use a lawyer, it will cost you a fortune.
cost/spend/pay a small fortune
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It must have cost him a small fortune.
earn a fortune (= earn an extremely large amount of money )
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Footballers at the top clubs earn a fortune these days.
fame and fortune (= being rich and famous )
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He came to London to seek fame and fortune.
flagging fortunes
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He presents himself as the man to revive the party’s flagging fortunes .
fortune cookie
made a fortune (= earned a lot of money )
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He’s made a fortune selling computers on the Internet.
piece of luck/good fortune
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It really was an extraordinary piece of luck.
reversal of fortune (= they were successful but now they are not )
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Some Internet firms have suffered a painful reversal of fortune .
soldier of fortune
worth a fortune
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The man who founded the company must be worth a fortune .
worth a fortune (= worth a very large amount of money )
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This art collection is worth a fortune .
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
considerable
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He had inherited it as an agreeable but mildly onerous responsibility, together with her considerable fortune .
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Soon, John Piper had amassed a considerable fortune .
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Perhaps the grand master of dysfunction was the late Francis Bacon, who made a considerable fortune out of it.
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She died last year, leaving him a considerable fortune .
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He died in Shepperton, where his nephew William Russell was then rector, 21 March 1836, leaving a considerable fortune .
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He knew that if he and Catherine had no sons, Isabella would inherit the considerable Linton fortune .
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Within the group as a whole and within individual families, there were considerable fluctuations in fortune .
economic
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Many farmers have adjusted to changing economic and social fortunes by taking a second job rather than leave their farms altogether.
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For one thing, the economic fortunes of companies change.
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Finally, perhaps there will be a welcome end to the wild gyrations in our economic fortunes .
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If current predictions of a recovery in the economic fortunes of the world come through, we shall be lucky.
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Initially the city responded well to the change of ruler, and its economic fortunes improved.
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The years 1921-2 did in fact cover one of the worst periods in the economic fortunes of the Smolensk guberniia.
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There are a number of articles which analyse this important aspect of explaining a region's economic fortunes .
good
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I did not immediately recognise this invitation as good fortune .
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A first daughter, with some good fortune , could be endured.
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So back we got into the car and ultimately by some good fortune we arrived at the Consulate.
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They seemed to envy our good fortune in being the first to leave.
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But he also had the good fortune to take over National just as the industry began to experience an unprecedented four-year boom.
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It has been Labour's good fortune to inherit this benign state of affairs.
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Simon did well after that but made a pretence of simple good luck to anyone who questioned his apparent good fortune .
great
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Within eight years he had fully repaid his creditors and accumulated a greater fortune than ever before.
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By great good fortune they were all asleep when Perseus found them.
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Her great good fortune has been an electoral system that has given her power on a minority vote.
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Paul &038; Manitoba railroad and great fortunes for all.
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My great good fortune was that I met Marian.
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I heard fewer stories about the great fortunes lost in the Depression than I would have expected.
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Very quickly the greatest fortune tended to be dissipated among innumerable descendants.
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These represented a tidy sum, not a great fortune but enough for her to be comfortably off.
large
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In 1889 he left the lace business in search of larger fortunes and set up as a stockbroker in Nottingham.
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He made a large personal fortune , partly from fees, partly from shrewd investments.
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I inherited a large fortune , a strong healthy body and an excellent mind.
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But large fortunes were made this way.
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Mr Jaggers himself told you you would have a large fortune , didn't he?
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Men like Samuel Gidion made the City's largest fortunes from dealing in government loans.
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The legend that he amassed a large fortune in gold and jewels is certainly false.
personal
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Among the demands was the call for the imposition of a super-tax on personal fortunes and company profits.
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High-tech advocates say that would force them to settle frivolous suits out of court rather than risk their personal fortunes .
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Now though, his personal fortune is threatened.
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Of such events are personal and national fortunes made.
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By contrast, industry and commerce were concerned with profit and the amassing of personal fortune .
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He made a large personal fortune , partly from fees, partly from shrewd investments.
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A wealthy woman in her own right, her personal fortune was recently estimated at £37m.
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The success of Mr Kasyanov's policies and his own personal fortunes are seen to be closely linked.
political
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There will be many a swing in both conventional wisdom and political fortunes between now and November.
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For decades rigid party hierarchy determined political fortunes .
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It changed, and still changes, as political fortunes and circumstances change.
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Zyuganov, successful in forcing Yeltsin into a runoff, has seen his political fortunes slip recently.
small
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Keeping a car fully maintained at your local cost-a-lot garage can work out at a small fortune - and it never ends.
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If you are not following them closely you can cost yourself a small fortune and never know it....
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He was an agreeable man with a small private fortune and a look of poverty.
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A small fortune will await the man who can reach the upper deck.
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Between them, the three main political parties spent a small fortune on this election.
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Chances are that such a trip would cost a small fortune , because it does not include a Saturday stay.
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Old man Riddle was cracked on religion and the old lady's father made a small fortune out of rabbit skins.
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He was making a small fortune with his spectacular ballets which toured the whole year round.
vast
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Many of them built up vast fortunes under my father's regime, illegal fortunes, I hasten to add.
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Spring's vast fortune comprised upwards of 40 percent of the combined assets of the Babergh clothiers.
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Both men amassed vast fortunes , which they then used to create new political movements as vehicles for their own ambitions.
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He had thought Lehmann had died intestate that his vast fortune had gone back to the Seven.
■ NOUN
cookie
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The jovial anchorman on the local news reaches into the pocket of his blazer and extracts a fortune cookie .
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In plates around the room were fortune cookies , srnall Buddhas and smouldering joss sticks.
teller
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As a keen amateur astronomer I take a dim view of being mistaken for a fortune teller !
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They grabbed the blind fortune teller and flung him brutally against the wall of a josh-house.
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Nora asks, staring into her teacup like a fortune teller . ` Well, it's leading here, eventually.
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It came from the fortune teller .
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I shrank back while the fortune teller tottered towards the main street.
■ VERB
amass
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On arrival in the New World, Tawell's wife found that her husband had amassed an immense fortune .
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How did you amass such a fortune ?
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Soon, John Piper had amassed a considerable fortune .
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He was a career civil servant who had allegedly amassed a fortune .
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His father, of Gipton, Leeds, said his son had amassed a fortune .
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I was beyond fury at this little creature, who had spoiled my chances at amassing a fortune of pink clay.
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Before the end of the Interregnum he had amassed a modest fortune and had begun styling himself gentleman.
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Before he was jailed in 1995 for six years for indecent assault, Allen amassed a multimillion-dollar fortune .
believe
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The right numbers are believed to influence the fortunes of their owners.
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Jody is having a hard time believing her good fortune .
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She could not believe her good fortune when it happened.
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It could not believe its fortune .
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He could scarcely believe his good fortune .
bring
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A stream of scientific papers began to bring fame but not fortune .
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It may be that the use of imperial motifs was thought to bring good fortune .
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The Moon also brings good fortune .
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I hope it will bring you good fortune .
build
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Many of them built up vast fortunes under my father's regime, illegal fortunes, I hasten to add.
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They each cost $ 250,000 to build-a fortune here.
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He lived most of his life on Manhattan Island, and built his first fortune on the fur trade.
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But the man who built a fortune on borrowed funds continued to extend and over-extend.
cost
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It costs a fortune to run and can not have many years left before scrapping, anyway.
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Besides, it costs a fortune .
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This would cost me a fortune .
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Huntsman, Savile Row, London. Cost a goddamned fortune .
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That hadn't cost a couple of pounds - it can cost a small fortune .
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If you are not following them closely you can cost yourself a small fortune and never know it....
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But, as Jill Abraham found out, it didn't cost a fortune to create this peaceful setting.
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Of course, everything was done in a way that cost a fortune .
earn
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His nightclub act earned him a fortune , much of which he spent on whisky, marijuana and cocaine.
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Clubs are now businesses and their star players are earning small fortunes .
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She earned a fortune , which she frittered away.
follow
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How then is the reader of art criticism best advised to use criticism to follow the fortunes of artists?
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Since then I have always followed the fortunes of Preston and am saddened to see them languishing in the lower divisions.
inherit
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My son Linton will inherit all the Linton fortune when Edgar dies.
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Jacinto is anxious to share his newly inherited fortune with Mariano.
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Six months later their two sons inherited their parents' fortune as sole beneficiaries.
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I inherited a large fortune , a strong healthy body and an excellent mind.
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She was expecting a baby, and we all hoped she would have a son, who would inherit the Linton fortune .
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In 1838 he inherited a fortune of a million pounds from his uncle, Robert Holford.
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But it seems this other relation has inherited his whole fortune .
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He knew that if he and Catherine had no sons, Isabella would inherit the considerable Linton fortune .
lose
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Top name acts are losing a fortune from it.
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One of the best lost fortune stories came from Ballard Mason, grandson of Shep, the shrewd Yankee trader.
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Her banker father had lost his fortune in the 1930 stock exchange crash.
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There is one more strain of lost fortune stories.
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More often, their dealers will be all too clear-sighted in losing them small fortunes .
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The charge proved to be a hoax, but growers lost a fortune as their produce rotted on the dock.
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Debon, a woman who speaks of past lives and lost fortunes , was reluctant to talk after that first encounter.
make
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If I could do that sort of thing I would be writing books and making a fortune from them.
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And he had already made his fortune by taking forty million dollars out of the sale of the firm to Phillips Brothers.
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Peter, who made his fortune in the family wallpaper business, was a generous, demonstrative and easy-going stepfather.
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Chun Doo Hwan, another former leader, of making a fortune with money received from businesses.
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Father was a mountaineer; he made his fortune from the ski resorts on a mountain Grandfather had bought cheaply in Colorado.
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A few hours of your time can make the Fund a fortune so please phone Jane Milligan.
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Eubank would fight every week if he could to make his fortune secure as soon as possible.
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Members swap prices and guess who made or lost a fortune in the past year.
pay
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Many a woman would have paid a fortune to have had his eyelashes, thick, long and curling.
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And in the SenFed there were people and governments willing to pay fortunes for the promise of near-perfect security.
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Erlich took his raincoat off the back seat, the heavy Burberry that he had paid a fortune for in Rome.
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What were they all doing there, paying a small fortune for their showy booths to catch the politicians' eyes?
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And these are men who have paid a small fortune to meet some one!
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You can pay a fortune for this, but just as good is Orabase cream, from any chemist.
restore
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Is this the boy to restore Britain's fortunes ?
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By 1967 Nasser needed a dramatic victory to restore his sagging fortunes .
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So there he was, in a merchant bank, desperately trying to restore the family fortunes .
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He needed the championship to restore Lotus's fortunes .
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You were a romantic figure, come to restore our fortunes .
revive
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The railway revived the flagging fortunes of Brighton.
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The 35-year-old Beane is faced with the daunting challenge of trying to revive the fortunes of a once-successful organization.
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He had carteblanche as long as he revived our fortunes - luckily he knew I was the station's biggest asset.
seek
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A succession of scandals finally persuaded his father that William must seek his fortune overseas.
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When he reached the age of reason, I confidently sent him forth to seek his fortune .
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Full also on the outgoing journeys with emigrants about to seek their fortune in London.
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All come to New Bedford to seek fortune and adventure in the fishery.
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The firm now believes it has virtually outgrown its market and is seeking to supplement its fortunes overseas.
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A fatherless, penniless boy - possessed of great determination, faith, and courage - seeks his fortune .
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But trade was slack so he made his way to London to seek his fortune .
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Indeed, seeking fortune becomes a search for a wealthy bride or patron.
spend
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And he had been spending a fortune , perhaps as much as £300,000, on her.
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Most cities spend a fortune on their fire departments-often 20 percent of their entire general fund.
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We spend a fortune on the latest time-saving gadgets.
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And that's one reason why I spent a middle-sized fortune in the most advanced form in Intelloid in the universe.
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The estate already has spent a fortune litigating the matter.
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Denis, 71, has spent a fortune on his quest since the 1940s.
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Mr Levin has also spent a fortune in shareholder money to resolve the internal rivalries bedeviling his game plan for Time Warner.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a hostage to fortune
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But this development of local state institutions can be a hostage to fortune.
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Making objectives explicit is a hostage to fortune and the failure to do so may reflect a shrewd awareness. 2.
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Senior Tories who dismissed the tax guarantee as a hostage to fortune will feel vindicated by Mr Hague's backdown.
a small fortune
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Between them, the three main political parties spent a small fortune on this election.
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Chances are that such a trip would cost a small fortune, because it does not include a Saturday stay.
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He was making a small fortune with his spectacular ballets which toured the whole year round.
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If you are not following them closely you can cost yourself a small fortune and never know it....
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Keeping a car fully maintained at your local cost-a-lot garage can work out at a small fortune - and it never ends.
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Old man Riddle was cracked on religion and the old lady's father made a small fortune out of rabbit skins.
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The last-minute outbidding by opportunist builders is costing ordinary buyers a small fortune in lost fees.
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Twenty pounds was a small fortune to most cockneys.
fortune/the gods etc smile on sb
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That means you are a magical person. The gods smile on twins.
seek your fortune
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Coles came to the Yukon in the 1970s to seek his fortune.
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A fatherless, penniless boy - possessed of great determination, faith, and courage - seeks his fortune.
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A succession of scandals finally persuaded his father that William must seek his fortune overseas.
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But trade was slack so he made his way to London to seek his fortune.
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Full also on the outgoing journeys with emigrants about to seek their fortune in London.
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The lesser ones probably opted to seek their fortune in the clothing trade.
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When he reached the age of reason, I confidently sent him forth to seek his fortune.
stroke of luck/fortune
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But by a remarkable stroke of fortune we were saved from falling into error.
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But, in a strange stroke of luck, this fall occurred as Maximilian and his armies were approaching Ensisheim.
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I also had a stroke of luck when a Jehovah's Witness called at the door earlier.
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That, it turned out, was a stroke of luck.
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The years of work and attention were bearing fruit now, and suddenly this stroke of luck with Betty.
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Then I had a stroke of luck.
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True enough, you married him, and what a happy stroke of fortune for the candidate.
the wheel of fortune/life/time etc
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And, as the wheel of fortune continues on its inexorable cycle, values are likely to start going up again soon.
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Then the wheel of fortune turned.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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He lost much of his $1.4 billion fortune in the stock market crash.
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To a four-year-old, $10 seems like a fortune .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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During the nineteenth century to be noticed was good fortune , while to be praised was a professional advantage.
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For one thing, the economic fortunes of companies change.
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He lived most of his life on Manhattan Island, and built his first fortune on the fur trade.
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In 1986, Harriman died, leaving her a substantial part of a fortune estimated at $ 100 million.
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The drama continued throughout the evening as the contest got under way, with fortunes changing with every throw of the darts.
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The extraordinary piece of good fortune that I had been given was the opportunity to fight it my way.
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Then, a year later, his fortunes changed.
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Unfortunately, he turned out to be a waster and dissipated his fortune before dying young.