Sentence examples for it was odds-on from inspiring English sources

Last April, the Met Office issued its seasonal forecast for summer 2009, and said it was "odds-on for a barbecue summer", in a tremendously resonant phrase which made big headlines everywhere, not least because it was such a terrific piece of good news after the washout summers of 2007 and 2008.

One firm said it was odds-on that she would fail to finish in the first 10.

Even if you knew nothing about horse racing, it was odds-on that you had heard of Red Rum.

And despite the gear-change required when one confronts a Ray film for the first time, it's odds-on that a good many will be seduced.

I suggest that it is odds-on that it will.

So it's odds-on that Dimon will survive.

The Diamond storyline makes good copy, but it is odds-on it goes precisely nowhere.

As it happens, it's odds-on that wee Willie loses his silly wager.

It is odds-on gold medal No 17 will arrive tonight.

It's odds-on that more than 60,000 people would come back to watch the Big Red Train roll again.

If the government releases several reports on the same day, it is odds-on that there is something it doesn't like in at least two of them.