The phrase "a shot as a" is not complete and lacks context, making it difficult to determine its correctness in written English.
It could potentially be used in contexts discussing opportunities or attempts, but without additional information, its usage is unclear.
Example: "He took a shot as a way to prove his skills in the competition."
Alternatives: "an attempt as a" or "a chance as a".
Packing up, broke, and driving away from his hometown of New Orleans, post-Katrina, to give it a shot as a songwriter in LA was a risk.
Having coached under Ohio State's Thad Matta before getting a shot as a head coach with Ohio, Groce's introduction to the Big Ten has, not surprisingly, been filled with questions about what he learned from Matta.
WHEN the e-mail came out of the blue last summer, offering a shot as a programmer at a San Francisco start-up, Jade Dominguez, 26, was living off credit card debt in a rental in South Pasadena, Calif., while he taught himself programming.
"But in a race like a governor's race or in a Congressional race, you have a shot as a Democrat if you're willing to submerge those traditional Democratic issues that you've been preaching all your life, especially the hot-button cultural issues".
He hit a shot as straight as a crow flies, watched it roll toward a flag 250 yards away and muttered, "I almost whiffed that one".
"He's got hands as good as anybody in the league; he's got a shot as good as anybody; he has a mean streak in him.
Secondly, some rumors sent via Twitter that are generating a lot of buzz have a shot as well.
One man reportedly showed them off on his computer during meals and used a particularly disturbing shot as a screen saver.
She moved here from Queens seven years ago to take a shot as an entrepreneur.
So for P-3Fax-Neu5Ac to have a shot as an antimetastasis drug, it must target cancer cells.
Instantgram, like CanvasPop and Prinstagram and Kanvess and InstaThis and Instacanvas, has a good a shot as any.
