1.   It was a day of mixed fortunes for husband and wife Price and Beth McConaghy.

2.   Nothing else can explain his attitude to the young Greg LeMond, who had the mixed fortune of being his teammate.

3.   The strong British contingent suffered mixed fortunes.

4.   In fact the war years were a period of mixed fortunes for cotton manufacture.

5.   Gloucestershire have enjoyed mixed fortunes in the first day of their County Championship match against Northamptonshire.

6.   The teams in first and second place in the table, Oxton and Chester Boughton Hall, enjoyed mixed fortunes.

7.   Leading department stores last week announced promising profit prospects for this business year after mixed fortunes in the year just ended.

8.   Still, read together, the retail and building figures spell mixed fortunes for the economy, he said.