So they may start researching a number of drugs, in the hope of striking lucky with just a few.

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You hope to get lucky.

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"I hope you're as lucky as me and hold on to the job until you're the old guy, " Leno said in a statement.

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Other prospectors - old and new - will hope that they will be as lucky.

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Her supporters also hope she can claim some of the credit if Mr Wahid gets lucky and turns things around.

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I'm also pregnant as I write this and I hope and pray that everything will go well a second time and we will be lucky enough to have a brother or sister for Emily.

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Some survivors wondered if the departed weren't the lucky ones--they got severance, after all, more than the rest could hope for if Dynegy followed Enron into bankruptcy.

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"Everybody used to call you Lucky when you were young, " Fallon sings in the magnificent "Stay Lucky, " taking all of 10 words to sum up a lifetime of compromise and faded hope.

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The school will hope to have at least some of that cost paid for by insurance, but the school may not be so lucky.

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