The phrase "heightened chance" is correct and commonly used in written English.
Example: Due to the heavy rainfall, there is a heightened chance of flooding in low-lying areas.
But I am aware that I am simply an anomaly, someone with a slightly heightened chance of moving up through the class system.
Across the country more than one in 10 adults has high blood sugar levels – indicating a significantly heightened chance of developing the condition, Public Health England figures show.
These are lack of space for new housing to meet a growing demand and the need to anticipate relentlessly rising sea levels and a heightened chance of flooding rains because of climate change.
Actors who are tapped to work in a movie by Woody Allen, or in such productions as Darren Aronofsky's surprisingly low-budget "Black Swan," take greatly reduced fees (and maybe a promised percentage) in exchange for what they hope will be the artistic satisfaction of working on the films (and perhaps a heightened chance at some year-end consideration).
In 2004, Cheney said the same thing about John Kerry: a vote for Kerry meant a vote for a heightened chance of terrorist attack and more dead Americans.
The heightened chance of assault that people who do not "fit," people who are sex or gender fluid, experience illustrates the point.
The bleak economic outlook heightened chances of further interest rate cuts.
Chinese party officials and Western experts say split leadership has contributed to increased political repression at home and heightened chances of military conflict with Taiwan, while raising the specter of a power struggle down the road.
A lack of available warehouse space in the U.K. limits just how much supermarkets are able to stock up, heightening chances that supermarket shelves might wind up empty.
In his latest legal stunner, the judge in the Microsoft msft antitrust case named a mediator Friday to orchestrate "voluntary" settlement talks between the software giant and the government, heightening chances for an out-of-court resolution.
The size of the increase heightened the chance that he would veto it, as he did a 15.4percentt increase last fall.
