Sentence examples for given odds of from inspiring English sources

It was given odds of 6/1 by William Hill which made Kennedy and Coetzee joint 3/1 favourites.

Tackling these other warming agents quickly would increase the CO2 budget for any given odds of 2C, whereas allowing them to increase would have the opposite effect.

Mon Mome, ridden by a young jockey, Liam Treadwell, making his National debut, was given odds of 100-1; and Williams had no special hopes for her horses.

Favourite Robert Winston was pipped at the post by journalist Philip Ball, whose book, Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another, was given odds of 8/1 - the longest on the shortlist - by bookmakers William Hill.

The British novelist, shortlisted for the Booker prize in 2009 for her novel The Children's Book, has been given odds of 18/1 to take the Nobel this year, up from 50/1 last year.

(Even Joseph Kennedy said of his son: "I would have given odds of 5,000 to 1 that this thing we are seeing could never have happened. I never thought Jack had it in him").

To what eventuality didNASA give odds of 3,200 to 1 37.

11.32am BST June was the wettest on record, and Ladbrokes is giving odds of 6/1 that July will be too.

Updated at 1.52pm GMT 1.37pm GMT Bookmakers William Hill are giving odds of 7/1 on Scotland leaving the UK, and 1/14 on Scots staying put.

The leaked transition risk register gave odds of four to one that "dismantling the current management structures and controls [causes] more failures".

There's also - as Mr Brown so often tells us - money in prudence, with Hill's giving odds of 11/8 on him using the word three times or more during his speech.