Fortunately, I knew almost exactly what the will had said.

Fortunately for Herbert, Uppark had a magnificent library in which he immersed himself, reading many classic works, including Plato's Republic, and More's Utopia.

Fortunately, the giraffes with long necks had a larger range of food choice ( based on height ) and thus lived longer and this trait was selected for through natural selection.

Fortunately for Saladin, al-Adil had his warships moved from Fustat and Alexandria to the Red Sea under the command of an Armenian mercenary Lu ' lu.

Fortunately, Warner Bros. had enough of a backlog of cartoons and a healthy reissue program so that there was no noticeable interruption in the release schedule.

Fortunately, a system of aerating pipes at the bottom of the lake had been set up to dissipate the chemical, reducing it to almost nothing by the 29th, preventing further environmental destruction.

Fortunately for herself and for Russia, Elizabeth Petrovna, with all her shortcomings ( documents often waited months for her signature ), had inherited some of her father's genius for government.

Fortunately, one of the Hungarian prison guards had seen Fritz playing for Germany, and told them that Fritz was not German but Austrian.

Fortunately, Shearer herself " had no illusions about the image I saw in the mirror.

Fortunately, Bates ( Eric Blore ), Horace's meddling English valet, disguises himself as a priest and conducts the ceremony ; apparently, Horace had sent Bates to keep tabs on Dale.

Fortunately, the shooting schedule was budgeted for two weeks of post-production photography, so even though the first cut had " some of the free-est, funniest and most sophisticated material that Woody had ever created, and it hurt him to lose it ", late 1976 saw three separate shoots for the final segment, two of which appear in some form.

Fortunately for the Flyers, they had home-ice advantage as they advanced to the Stanley Cup Finals by winning Game 7 and in the process made history by becoming the first expansion team to win a playoff series over an original six team.

Fortunately James Mason had just finished filming Doctor Fischer of Geneva for the BBC and the schedule was changed to allow him to take over the part of Sir Randolph Nettleby six weeks later.

Fortunately for Pitt, the king recovered in February 1789, just after a Regency Bill had been introduced and passed in the House of Commons.

Fortunately, although the dimensional distance prevented the Professor from telepathically contacting his students directly-although he could penetrate the dimensional barrier, his weakened powers were subsequently unable to access the complex minds of his students-he was able to make contact with Jeffery Saunders, the mentally handicapped grandson of a recently-deceased friend of his, whose mental state meant that he lacked the conflicting thoughts that had prevented the Professor reaching the X-Men.

Fortunately, the tornado struck immediately after the day shift had ended and casualties were minimal.

Fortunately, the Hubble telescope had been designed to allow in-space maintenance, and in December 1993, mission STS-61 carried astronauts to the Hubble to make corrections and change some components.

Fortunately, Chelsea had no publicly held long-term debt — thus, a solution to its problems could be explored in isolation of creditors.

Fortunately, after the war the county records were found intact in a cell in the jail, where they had been concealed by R. W.

Fortunately his superior, Father Abbot Dom Frederic, saw that Merton had a gifted intellect and talent for writing.

Fortunately, Scott's father had become acquainted with Howard Hughes and provided a letter of introduction for his son to present to the eccentric millionaire filmmaker.

Fortunately for Mayer, Fox was badly injured in a car crash in the summer of 1929, and by the time he recovered he had lost most of his fortune in the fall, 1929 stock market crash, putting an end to the Loew's merger.

Fortunately for the British, the Germans were surprised by gunfire from an unexpected source: Canopus, which had been grounded as a guardship and was behind a hill.

Fortunately for the prosecutor and unfortunately for Angélique, an eyewitness suddenly appeared: the five year old daughter of Alexis Monière, Amable, testified that she had seen Angélique carrying a shovelful of coals up to the attic of the house on the afternoon the fire started This evidence finally allowed the prosecutor to close his case and the judge and the four commissioners he summoned to participate in the sentence all concurred that Angélique was guilty.

Fortunately, Chrysler quickly realized the error and started building bare-bones Aries and Reliants, and sales went strongly from that point onwards.

Fortunately the monastery survived and, after the war ended, the monks returned to the town and started its reconstruction.

Fortunately the Spanish government reinforced the law which protected chimpanzees and a British couple called Simon and Peggy Templer started a rescue for confiscated chimpanzees.

Fortunately for Winchester, Western's First Vice-President John M. Olin was a sportsman and gun enthusiast, and he started at once to restore the brand to its former luster by concentrating on its classic models and updated versions thereof, with particular attention to quality and prestige.

Fortunately, an elderly man familiar with the chimney's " cat and clay " style gave directions for making a new one, using stone from an old bridge.

Fortunately, the generalized canonical correlation analysis ( gCCA ) is the statistical method of choice for making those harmful cross-covariances vanish.

Rather than making a single " Fortunately ..." ( or " Unfortunately ...") statement, each person in the group can provide a long alternating list of sentences / statements.

Fortunately for Hank, a bee flies into the house, and Earl runs for cover, making Denise realize that Hank's outlandish story about the " assault " on Earl was actually true and that Earl is, in fact, the racist.

Fortunately, at the moment of invasion Roquat tastes the Water of Oblivion and forgets everything, including his enmity and his name.

Fortunately, it is the FHA which has arrived at this conclusion, for it means that cooling equipment of all kinds may now be included in a mortgage, and thus acquired with a minimum of financial stress.

Fortunately we were alone in the building -- so few people nowadays are interested even in their own past or in the lovely craft of other days -- for they began to abuse each other in the foulest language.

Fortunately, gender was inflected, though the expression of it would be difficult for anybody not born in Siddo.

Fortunately for the 6x86 ( and AMD K6 ), many games continued to be integer-based throughout the chip's lifetime.

Fortunately for Moscow, its major enemies, the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth and Sweden, were engaged in a bitter conflict with each other, which provided Russia the opportunity to make peace with Sweden in 1617 and to sign a truce with the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1619.

Fortunately for the British, many areas remained loyal and quiescent, allowing the revolt to be crushed after fierce fighting.

Fortunately it mattered little, as the British betrayed the Czechs, war was avoided, and the need for long-range aircraft did not arise.

Fortunately for posterity, this project, occupying the artist for much of the 1520s and 1530s, was more fully realized.

Fortunately, it is possible to build plain track suitable for all three ( see Dual gauge ).

Fortunately, the results of the Human Genome Project have largely replaced the need for RFLP mapping, and the identification of many single-nucleotide polymorphisms ( SNPs ) in that project ( as well as the direct identification of many disease genes and mutations ) has replaced the need for RFLP disease linkage analysis ( see SNP genotyping ).

Fortunately, the deforested land was suitable for farming.

Fortunately for Bruce, his friend, and Edward's son-in-law, Ralph de Monthermer learnt of Edward's intention and warned Bruce by sending him twelve pence and a pair of spurs.

Fortunately for the Colts, he managed to recover the fumble and throw the ball away, preventing a loss of yards or a turnover.

Fortunately the Sloughi is one of the breeds in whom this condition can be tested for with a small blood sample, and breeders are working to eliminate PRA from the gene pool.

Fortunately for you, most of the evidence was shredded, so you are facing only a year in prison.

Fortunately, the anticipated costs of a possible third world war are currently no longer deemed as acceptable by most, thus little motivation currently seems to exist on an international level for such a war.

Fortunately for Henry IV, the reaction to his imprisonment was indignation.

Fortunately for Charles, the new Pope Clement IV was the former adviser to his brother Alphonse and strongly supported the accession of Charles.

Fortunately for Rickover, he ran into his former commanding officer from Nevada while leaving the building, who interceded successfully on Rickover's behalf.