To win the big prize, folks had to correctly match the numbers on their ticket to the five white balls, plus the red Powerball number, selected randomly at the drawing.

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The colt had always been destined to win the big Dubai prize at Nad al Sheba after Sheikh Mohammed renamed him as a two-year-old.

BBC: Goodbye Millennium

And though 2007's "No Country for Old Men" didn't win the festival's big prize, the buzz surrounding the film after its Cannes showing was instrumental in carrying it to a best picture win at the Oscars.

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The film's producers said they had expected fellow Oscar best-picture nominee "Beasts of the Southern Wild" to win the top Spirit Award and that they have no expectations of winning the big prize at the Oscars, where Ben Affleck's CIA thriller "Argo" is the best-picture favorite.

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If the Tories could replicate among ethnic minorities the progress they have made among gays, they would win a big electoral prize.

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