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Due to the huge demand, tickets will be allocated using a lottery system.

When she won the lottery prize of one million dollars, it was paid to her in annual sums of $100,000 over ten years.

A few years ago, a Canadian man found a lottery ticket worth over $1 million belonging to someone else, and actually returned it to the owner.

Discussion question: What would you do if you found a winning lottery ticket which belonged to somebody else? He won the lottery and then blew all his money on cars, booze and women.

A portion of the funds from the lottery will be channelled into amateur sports programs.

I'm eager to find out who will win the lottery today.

The original thirteen colonies of the United States were financed with the help of money raised by selling lottery tickets.

57 percent of Americans have bought a lottery ticket in the last 12 months, making lotteries by far the favorite choice of gamblers.

Fran Lebowitz once remarked, "I've done the calculation, and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or or not.

" It is inevitable that you will win something if you keep buying lottery tickets, but you will probably never get back as much as you have spent.

Claude Monet's 100,000-franc winnings in the French lottery in 1891 allowed him to quit his job as a messenger, and do what he really enjoyed - painting.

I never buy lottery tickets because I read in the paper that you have more chance of being hit by lightning than of winning the grand prize.

He won $10 with his lottery ticket, and just used the money to buy 10 more tickets.

His grandmother gave him a lottery ticket as a birthday present, and he won $100 with it.

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