Look back at your other presents as, chances are, you will have forgotten how much you appreciate them by the time you have had a short pause and opened more.
What you can say: If it is a one off thing (for example) they have had a falling out or argument with a parent or sibling, it is nothing to get too worried about as, chances are, they will make up within a week.
As chances of a deal shrink, international impatience grows.
As chances for a Middle East resolution fade, it has become a priority for the Clinton administration to fix Haiti, one of its few remaining supposed foreign policy triumphs.
As chances became scarce, McCulloch was punished for a foul on Bell just as the home fans thought he had equalised.
Others see such exchanges as chances to fill a political vacuum.
Knaus has begun to look at the races until the Chase to the Championship as chances to tinker.
Errors meant one of Britain's worst serial rapists, John Worboys, remained at large as chances to catch him were missed.
We seem more and more to treat things like this as chances to make moral or political points.
Don't pick too late That said, don't leave it until third term as chances are there won't be anything left, let alone anything decent.
Its individual manifestations, however, in the form of such phenomena as chances, errors, or individuals, fight against and destroy each other.
