| And one night this year when it was near show time and he didn't have anything to do, he walked over to the Tickets booth and struck gold. |
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| Here, at last, among the miscellaneous accumulation of the family's past, I struck gold. |
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| Some were 'shepherds' who did token work on their claim until a neighbour struck gold. |
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| Jonah was part of the New Zealand rugby sevens team which struck gold at the last Commonwealth Games. |
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| Apparently, three of the Struben brothers' workers were among those who struck gold in the main reef. |
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| Wiggins struck gold on the track in Athens last year and is on nodding terms with the American great. |
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| But it's with the archive recordings of film soundtracks that the orchestra has really struck gold. |
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| I hear all the time from readers who think they've struck gold with a cheap PC only to realize later that they're stuck with fool's gold. |
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| Price's crew struck gold for the second time at the World Championships in 2003, elevating them to the position of favourite for the Athens Olympics. |
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| They had just struck gold. But before they could start minting it, they needed to find which combination of materials to use. |
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| They struck gold simply because most of society consider lawyers as bottom feeders somewhere on the ladder beneath used car salesman and alphabet network anchormen. |
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| In March, he and his Team Canada teammates struck gold when they won the Ice Sledge Hockey World Championship in Salt Lake City, Utah. |
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| Lovers of traditional cigar types with Sumatra wrappers have struck gold with the El Bacco. |
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| Riding in the fume-filled haze back across the high sierras to Palma, I reflected that Errol really had struck gold when he made Majorca his second home 50 years ago. |
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| Up against world class competitors, he struck gold in the FITA Indoor category, shooting a personal best score of 57 bullseyes out of 60 shots to leave his rivals in his wake. |
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| And many animation firms realise that they have struck gold. |
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| In 1997 in Athens, she struck gold at the discus throw. |
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| Then the Finnish educational specialists struck gold in the former GDR: The school system there appeared extremely promising and was adapted to the conditions in Finland. |
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| During the California Gold Rush, a meal of fried Olympia oysters and eggs became the signature dish for the men who struck gold because this was the most expensive meal of its day. |
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| When United Artists commissioned David DePatie and Friz Freleng to make separate Pink Panther cartoons, their first effort struck gold. |
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| The Incredibles – 90 Pixar struck gold, again. |
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| As with Busby, Ferguson saw the importance of youth and struck gold with a generation of youngsters including Ryan Giggs, David Beckham and Paul Scholes. |
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| In a large and strong field of 53 competitors from 21 countries in the Men's Open Compound division, Kevin struck gold at the 2009 FITA Para-Archery World Championship in Nymburk, Czech Republic. |
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| Oakley's alpine skiing star Lindsey Vonn has struck gold in Canada, scoring a resounding victory over her German arch-rival Maria Riesch and fellow American Julia Mancuso. |
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