"I think that on the whole you have had a fortunate escape," said Sherlock Holmes.

To see an infant swimming, portends a fortunate escape from some entanglement.

'I assure you, you have had a fortunate escape.'

But its spaciousness alone was enough to give me a sense of a fortunate escape, a momentary exultation of freedom.

It was a very fortunate escape for you.

A fortunate escape, thanks be to God.

Hibernia had a fortunate escape on the night of 20 December 1940.

It was a fortunate escape for me.

In her case, it proved a fortunate escape, for she could have been sidelined there for crucial years.

You remember that she had a fortunate escape when the rock almost hit her.