Example sentences of "be [art] [num] chance " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had been a fifty-fifty chance , but it 's better to be lucky than good . |
| 2 | He had won the Dewhurst Stakes by six lengths as a two-year-old but had been a 33–1 chance for the Derby in the spring of 1953 until an impressive victory in the Newmarket Stakes brought his odds down to 8–1 . |
| 3 | It must have been a million-to-one chance for him to hit the car right in the middle . ’ |
| 4 | After it was all over , we kept hearing about it being a million-to-one chance . |
| 5 | All that is recorded is the two chance meetings between Jesus and lepers . |
| 6 | It 's the one chance our children get to participate like other children |
| 7 | It 's the one chance that members of the Ninety-Six club have each year to drive their classic cars the way they were intended … hard and fast . |
| 8 | ‘ Because that 's the one chance you 've got of coming through this whole thing alive . |
| 9 | I 'm an optimist : I think there 's a fifty-fifty chance that we will find them in the next twenty years . |
| 10 | The colt has been in constant demand for the 2,000 Guineas and is a 12–1 chance . |
| 11 | After four years of the parliament ( ie , by April 1996 ) there is a one-in-six chance that their majority will have gone . |
| 12 | For two siblings there is a fifty-fifty chance that it will share one of its genes . |
| 13 | ‘ If there is a one-in-a-thousand chance that the present deputies will accept the referendum results and take this path of constitutional reform , then the president and government are obliged to give them it , ’ says Sergei Shakhrai , a deputy prime minister who is one of Mr Yeltsin 's most influential advisers . |
| 14 | There is a ⅓ chance that the desired record is on the centre track , and this brings the average search time to ( 7/6 ) R ( or ( 10/6 ) R where the track start has to be located ) . |
| 15 | There is a one-in-328 chance of an employee being killed in accident while working on the nation 's farms . |
| 16 | This means that , should the project have a successful outcome , there is a 0.9 chance that the additional research supported this outcome and 0.1 chance that it did not . |
| 17 | But if it goes out of control again , there is a one-in-three chance it will happen while beyond the reach of ground control . |
| 18 | Conversely , if the project fails there is a 0.2 chance that the additional research supported it and a 0.8 chance that it did not . |
| 19 | ‘ It was a fifty-fifty chance of saving someone on the verge of death , ’ one source close to the surgeons said . |
| 20 | It was a million-to-one chance . |