Police said after the bomb was made safe that it was 'either a sheer fluke or a bloody miracle' that London had escaped carnage.

By sheer fluke the machine pistol arced up and over the beam, its momentum swinging it back into the terrorist's hands.

It was, for example, a sheer fluke that he began his career as a mining engineer with Manchester Collieries Ltd.

If they can't see that what we picked up by a sheer fluke is going to change all our lives, then let them find out in their own way.

When, by the sheerest fluke, she'd discovered he had not one other woman on the side but two, it drove her to near insanity.

It wasn't training, it was sheer genetic fluke.

I don't believe they'll do much damage with this raid, except by a sheer fluke.

And, through a sheer fluke of scheduling, six proved surprisingly similar.

By the sheerest fluke, Doc happened to be waving his sword in the beast's general direction, even though he was looking down at Lori.

Chapter Ten It was the sheerest fluke that Plum happened to be strolling through the lowest levels of the garden when she heard the scream.