Collocations withfortune
These are words often used in combination withfortune.
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changing fortunes
Despite the changing fortunes of central political power, the 8th century represented the apogee of the reign, also a period of economic prosperity.
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considerable fortune
He amassed a considerable fortune from it—a dreadful thing to do.
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electoral fortune
Similarly, turnout at legislative elections is an important consideration in explaining and predicting the electoral fortunes of parties or candidates.
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enormous fortune
However, by the time of his death in 1852, he had gathered an enormous fortune and several hundred thousand acres of land.
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family fortune
As a landed gentleman, however, there is only one way to recover the family fortune, and that is to marry for it.
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good fortune
If true, it was a tactical mistake of historic proportion, and extraordinary good fortune for the insurgents who lost no time in exploiting it adeptly.
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ill fortune
Moreover, the outcast colonial generally deserves his ill fortune because he is a reprobate.
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immense fortune
What remained of his immense fortune allowed them again, this time to live more richly.
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personal fortune
This would explain the bitter nature of local struggles, directly linked to questions of personal fortune.
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political fortune
It happens to be a party point at the moment but that is an accident of political fortune.
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reversal of fortune
A reversal of fortune came two years later by a more conventional path.
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small fortune
I have not tried to make out that the fisherman has been making a small fortune.
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vast fortune
I realise that it would cost a vast fortune to improve them.
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