Sentence examples for as very unlikely from inspiring English sources

The phrase "as very unlikely" is not correct in standard written English
It can be used when expressing a degree of improbability, but it typically requires rephrasing for clarity. Example: "The chances of winning the lottery are as very unlikely as finding a needle in a haystack."

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That a meteor impact would coincide by chance with massive volcanism at the times of two mass extinctions strikes scientists as very unlikely.

"If there is a 10% chance of an aircraft crashing, you would not board it, but the IPCC classes that as very unlikely," said Ted Shepherd, at the University of Reading.

"I would be the last person to say anything is impossible, but it strikes me as very unlikely," said Annette Gordon-Reed, a professor at New York Law School and author of "Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy University Press ofof Virginia, 1997).

Along those same lines, Mr. Badillo said that should he win the Republican primary against Michael R. Bloomberg today, something that even his own supporters described as very unlikely, he was prepared to step aside and run for the State Supreme Court so the Republican Party can run Mr. Giuliani instead.

In the original publication the last two answer scales depicted in Fig. 1 had both left and right endpoints labelled as "Very unlikely".

Despite being linked with Schalke's Germany international midfielder Julian Draxler, and losing Theo Walcott to a season-ending injury, Wenger described his chances of adding to Arsenal's squad during the current transfer window as "very unlikely".

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They too will demand changes before any election, making a poll as early as July 20th very unlikely.It is evident that both sides of the political divide now have almost no faith left in the mediating institutions and processes of the state.

They end up as a very unlikely buddy team able to share laughs — as well as armaments.

But the authors regard this investment-boom scenario as a very unlikely way for q to get back to one.

Investigators described the outbreak as a "very unlikely occurrence and an isolated event" and said that in other regards the firm practised good biosecurity measures.

Yet Mathieu Amalric is funny as a very unlikely police officer, and the chocolatey-toned Dussollier (the voice of Proust's Remembrance of Things Past on the French audio-book edition) is always seductive.

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