score a success
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At only one point did the Spanish troops score a success.
From Time Magazine Archive
I can take a crowd of professionals or amateurs and place them before me in a semi-circle, seated; get them to read a play for me and immediately pick those who will score a success.
From The Art of Stage Dancing The Story of a Beautiful and Profitable Profession by Ned Wayburn
This book, with its wealth of metaphor, opened the door for Meredith, but he did not score a success until he wrote The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, two years later.
From Modern English Books of Power by George Hamlin Fitch
On every point at which she tried to score a success over France, Germany was defeated by the votes of the other powers, even her own ally, Italy, deserting her.
From The Expansion of Europe The Culmination of Modern History by Ramsay Muir
It seems to me," said the tenor, "that if you could write an opera round an interesting love story, you would score a success.
From Paul Kelver, a Novel by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome
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