chance

The electoral council announced that all eligible people would get a chance to vote.

I'll write when I get the chance.

I felt I had to give him a chance to show whether he had reformed or not.

I'd like to have a chance to travel.

She put the phone down before I had a chance to reply.

I just need to give Abed a chance.

This reduces the chance that the salmon eggs will survive.

Whatever the answer, it is clear that a general framework is required to ensure that any translocation is justified, has a realistic chance of success, and will be properly monitored and evaluated for the benefit of future efforts.

Not many people have had the chance to study them up close.

I understand, but that seems like a small risk to take in exchange for giving students a chance to talk publicly, interactively about issues they care about.

In other words, in a rich system if a species is lost, there is a good chance that other species will take over its function as prey, predator, producer, decomposer, or whatever role it played.

By contrast, in the tropics, where each tree species has few, widely scattered individuals, the chance of wind blowing pollen to another individual is sufficiently slim that animals are a safer bet as transporters of pollen.

So I wanted to see if there's a chance the university sends fifteen students overseas to study?

Well, if a cod fish could reproduce earlier than usual, it'd have a better chance of passing on its genes to the next generation before being caught, right?

Another favorite of the Dadaists was something called chance poetry.

And this idea of chance and randomness was a key element of Dadaism because the whole world seemed so random to them.

And if someone discovers that they love dance by watching a screen dance, there's a good chance they will get interested enough to buy a ticket to see a live performance.

Do you think I've got a chance?

Their chances of winning are very good.

Do you think they have a chance of beating Australia?

There is little chance of his coming.

Right now you have got it to yourself but there's a chance someone else might sign up at the last minute, not likely.

In other words, in a rich system if a species is lost, there is a good chance that other species will take over its function as prey, predator, producer, decomposer, or whatever role it played.

When researchers first started looking at wild teosinte plants, they thought there was a chance that the two plants, um, maize and teosinte, were related.

And studies show that the more you are aware of a product, there's a greater chance you'll buy it.

It all depends on chance.

It was pure chance that I arrived at that moment.

Another favorite of the Dadaists was something called chance poetry.

And well, light from stars, even nearby in our own galaxy, doesn’t stand a chance against that.

Later on, tulip breeders learned to duplicate color breaking in healthy, uninfected plants, so the spectacular-looking tulips so common today are the result not of chance viral infections, but of carefully controlled breeding.

In 1841 Edward Forbes was offered the chance to serve as naturalist aboard HMS Beacon, an English Royal Navy ship assigned to survey the Aegean Sea.

Once the pollen has been snatched by the wind, the fate of the pollen is obviously up to the vagaries of the wind, but not everything is left to chance.

It was a chance in a million that brought us together.

It was a lucky chance that gave me the opportunity to make amends.

We created far more chances than they did in the first half.

It was a definite chance and he should have taken it.

Braddock gave a difficult chance to Muggins in the gulley.

Bates was chancing his arm in trying to hit the wicket from that distance.

She chanced her arm and achieved a lucky hit.

He decided no assassin would chance a shot from amongst that crowd.

There's a risk that I'll be caught, but I'm going to chance it.

I chanced to overhear them talking about your work.

It was just then that I chanced to look round.

What if it should chance to rain on that particular afternoon?