Like Eva Smith, they're not given any second chance; only a brief bubble of illusory hope, which bursts as the curtain falls.
But the Tigers made some tremendous strides during the home and away season, beating three of the top four sides and appearing a bona fide chance to claim a double chance only a fortnight ago.
Watford have been under the cosh since the interval but have just shown how quickly they can break when they get the chance - only a poor final ball let them down.
Post-action reports still documented the original estimate and assumed that the 352nd had been deployed to the coastal defenses by chance, only a few days previously, as part of an anti-invasion exercise.
They created a clutch of presentable chances only for a mixture of poor finishing and the reactions of Ciprian Tatarusanu, the Romania goalkeeper, to thwart them.
As expected, the human PPI network has much more highly improbable topological connections that happen by chance only with a very low probability (Fig. 1c and 1d).
A decent rotation does give them a chance, but only a small one.
Can we?" There's a chance, but only a small one.
Not a good chance, mind: only a lucky few prospectors struck the mother lode.
Daniel's proficiency in Spanish came about by chance -- only a Spanish-speaking nanny was available to take care of him.
