noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
postcode lottery
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Some sufferers are denied treatment because of the postcode lottery.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
national
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I agree with my hon. Friend about the usefulness of a national lottery .
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Key elements of the new department will be the introduction of a national lottery and of a Millennium Fund.
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To supply these funds he reestablished the national lottery which afforded the government about one hundred thousand duros a year.
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The organisers of the pools believe that huge jackpots are their best weapon in fighting the threat posed by a national lottery .
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A new national lottery to aid sport, the arts and the national heritage.
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He will take over responsibility for broadcasting from the Home Office in addition to administering the new national lottery .
■ NOUN
state
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Try your luck at the fairest, squarest state lottery of them all!
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The state lottery , approved by voters 11 years ago, offers lotto and scratch-off tickets as close as the corner market.
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Other measures gave us the state lottery , coastline protection, guaranteed levels of school finance and term limits.
ticket
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Informal sector activities include such occupations as street-vending of lottery tickets , food, combs, cigarettes and the inevitable chewing gum.
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By comparison, lottery tickets can be bought as easily as chewing gum at hundreds of retail outlets and news agents.
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Selling lottery tickets among your friends is one way; recruiting new members is another.
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It was an unlikely gift, a winning lottery ticket that had dropped from the sky, and that was all.
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There were blind men begging, selling lottery tickets .
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As the cantor was reciting the Eighteen Benedictions, one fellow was trying to sell a lottery ticket .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A baby's sex is a genetic lottery . It all depends on the chromosomes the baby receives from its parents.
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the NFL draft lottery
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But it was a lottery and lotteries were undesirable.
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Franken also avoided military service with student deferments while at Harvard and, ultimately, a high lottery number.
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Nine hundred Maine residents and 100 nonresidents had their names drawn from a lottery .
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Similarly, if you have just won the lottery , go to an adviser who specialises in high net worth individuals.
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The organisers of the pools believe that huge jackpots are their best weapon in fighting the threat posed by a national lottery .
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They had been playing the lottery together for more than a year, and they trusted him.
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They have spent a lifetime playing the birth lottery .
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They will hate you with a loathing reserved for lottery winners.