Sentence examples for hard chances from inspiring English sources

"hard chances" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to describe an opportunity that carries a lot of risk or is difficult to achieve. For example, "The climbers knew they were taking a hard chance by scaling that sheer cliff face."

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If you worked hard, chances are you'd have a job for life, with a decent paycheck, good benefits, and the occasional promotion.

I think we may have the best defensive stats in the league right now, but that's only because we're so slow in the infield that we never even get to the hard chances.

They went at nearly five an over which is very unlike them and they weren't as disciplined as we are used to seeing them, with a couple of hard chances going through the slips.

If you worked hard, chances are you'd have a job for life, with a decent paycheck and good benefits and the occasional promotion.

"If you worked hard, chances are you'd have a job for life, with a decent paycheck and good benefits and the occasional promotion," President Barack Obama lamented in his 2011 State of the Union Address.

"If you worked hard, chances are you'd have a job for life, with a decent paycheck and good benefits and the occasional promotion," the president said, adding that he understood "the frustrations of Americans who've seen their paychecks dwindle or their jobs disappear -- proud men and women who feel like the rules have been changed in the middle of the game".

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It was a very hard chance, low to his left.

It was an incredibly hard chance, yet we've almost come to expect Collingwood to take those.

It was a hard chance but it was unmistakably a chance and with Jayawardene in this sort of order it needed to be taken.

Sarwan, who gave a hard chance to Graham Thorpe in the gully on 92, was more circumspect, but the partnership was prospering again.

A ruddy hard chance, to be fair – the ball was fair blasted down the ground, Sammy flung out a hand, and though ball did hit palm it never looked remotely inclined to stick around.

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