lottery
Example Sentences
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The Southern Trust is the only trust in Northern Ireland without an inpatient addiction rehabilitation facility, which campaigners have said has created a "postcode lottery".
From BBC
“There are certain companies where it’s almost like playing the lottery,” he said.
More than 100,000 people entered the lottery for about 200 tours in December and January, making the EV plant harder to get into than some competitive colleges.
By the end of kindergarten, children who were randomly selected through a lottery to attend Montessori preschools outperformed their peers in reading, executive function, short-term memory, and social understanding.
From Science Daily
So what effect does this so-called "lottery" of early years provision have, not only on the family but on the child and their future?
From BBC
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