Sentence examples for chance at that time from inspiring English sources

I basically had no chance at that time.

Those efforts were more than effective: to have a "Chinaman's chance" at that time meant that one had zero prospects.

When I finished "Human Smoke," I didn't share Pollitt's fury; I merely felt sadness, not only for those whose prescription for humanity had absolutely no chance at that time (or probably any time), but for the human race overall.

This came about entirely by chance, for at that time no one suspected that the robins were in danger.

Trillin writes: "As it happens, I grew up in Kansas City and spent hours of my youth talking about where a person could find the best fried chicken in the world or the best barbecued ribs in the world or the best hamburgers in the world -- all, by chance, available at that time within the city limits of Kansas City, Mo.

An hour ago we might have been able to see through the bamboo and across the wrinkled brown water into Southside where Mexicans sat on the levee waiting to seize their chance, but at that time Murray and I had been over by the Port of Entry East bridge where two Mexicans waited, not aliens yet; while on our side, Northside, another agent sat calmly watching them in his car.

But it is easy to use that term also to legitimate a series of events, contacts, encounters and methods that seem largely due to chance at the time, and in ethnography much is due to chance.

While the strategy was "not risk-free," in his words, "they had a pretty good chance" at the time.

This was clearly going to be a season of transition and Januzaj is seizing his chance at this time of upheaval.

We have a chance at this time to make resolutions not just for a year but for a decade.

Pierre Rémond de Montmort, in collaboration with Nicolaus Bernoulli, wrote a book on probability Essay d'analyse sur les jeux de hazard which appeared in 1708, which can be seen as an extension of the Part III of Ars Conjectandi which applies combinatorics and probability to analyze games of chance commonly played at that time.