So these lucky eight txters win a Sport Academy goody bag.

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Chet Hodge , 68, is one of the lucky eight.

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Dance duo Daft Punk's first new single in eight years, Get Lucky, has broken Spotify streaming records.

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Sharks number eight Sebastien Chabal was lucky not to follow Jones to the sin bin when he kicked the ball away after his side were penalised for standing up in the scrum.

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It had dumped a bunch of oddball assets, including an olive farm in South America, a jet-leasing business and a ski resort, but with six CEOs in eight years (Wood was the potential lucky number seven), Dana remained adrift, a 108-year-old company in search of a new beginning.

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But it was third time lucky for the Catalans when Touxagas strolled over unopposed on eight minutes after Stacey Jones's kick was easily patted back by Adam Mogg.

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I'm emailing, messaging, tweeting and browsing the internet much more frequently than any sane person should, but I'm lucky if the phone gets me through a standard workday -- usually eight to 10 hours at the most.

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"Others were not so lucky and slept in their cars, " she said, sitting on a bed with her eight- and 10-year-old granddaughters by her side.

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Dodds was lucky to escape a red card when he deliberately felled Fletcher on the edge of the penalty area with eight minutes left on the clock, and Zemmama's resulting free-kick shaved the United post.

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And we were lucky to land good jobs with a steady income, but we only finished paying off our student loans about eight years ago.

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