Example sentences of "is a [num] chance " in BNC.
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| 1 | The colt has been in constant demand for the 2,000 Guineas and is a 12–1 chance . |
| 2 | After four years of the parliament ( ie , by April 1996 ) there is a one-in-six chance that their majority will have gone . |
| 3 | For two siblings there is a fifty-fifty chance that it will share one of its genes . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | There is a one-in-328 chance of an employee being killed in accident while working on the nation 's farms . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |