(1) The president himself made a small fortune selling his failed oil company to business friends of his father.

(2) Like I didn't spend a fortune having the Times sent to me every day.

(3) Maguire missed four of the last Cheltenham Festivals due to ill fortune .

(4) I spent a fortune on drink and drugs

(5) Despite humble origins, her father amassed a small fortune buying, cultivating and reselling land.

(6) But it still amounts to a substantial fortune for him not to have a share of.

(7) But, thankfully, we've now got room to lock away the teak garden furniture that we spent a fortune buying at the start of the summer.

(8) For example, it cost a small fortune just for the extension cords.

(9) He inherited a substantial fortune

(10) And just as the serpent had promised, good fortune smiled upon the woodcutter and his wife.

(11) Even though these items cost a fortune , they're bought because their owners don't want to be looked down on.

(12) Like all Kias, the Sorento will not cost you a fortune to buy or to run.

(13) Every misfortune, like any piece of good fortune , involves two questions: The first is how it happened, and the second is why.

(14) Notwithstanding those difficulties the biggest problem facing any publisher is chance and fickle fortune .

(15) He eventually inherited a substantial fortune

(16) Items such as modern hi-tech lamps can cost a fortune to buy but you haven't begun to count the real cost until you work out what you pay to travel with them.

(17) Officials also knew that upgrading the building to meet seismic standards would cost a fortune .

(18) I have had the good fortune to see the piece several times a day for several weeks, as it was placed outside my office before the sale.

(19) But the pair suffered the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune with smiles and embraced each other warmly at the end of an epic contest.

(20) Before the war he had been left a substantial fortune by his father.