But the sheer size of the transaction is still likely to yield a big payout.
"It is neither likely to yield a significant public health benefit nor is it good public policy".
"A vote to remain in the EU would end uncertainty and be likely to yield a moderate ad investment acceleration in the second half of this year".
November's mid-term elections are likely to yield a re-election rate much higher than that: perhaps as high as 98%.
But, as things stand, the election seems likely to yield a hung parliament, in which no party has an overall majority.
Only a wedding of the two perspectives — a marriage of the yin and the yang — is ever likely to yield a complete picture of the cosmos.
Although there is increasing public frustration over the deadlock, polls suggest the new elections are likely to yield a similar result to last time, with no single party winning enough votes to form a majority government.
Similarly, because adding a GRAS gene to a GRAS organism is likely to yield a GRAS outcome, an F.D.A. pre-marketing review would not be necessary for many animals with a newly introduced gene.
To even criticise Oasis nowadays is about as effective and likely to yield a positive result as placing a hedgehog holding a small stop sign in the path of an oncoming oil tanker and expecting the erinaceomorph to prevail.
But the encounter may be of some historic note, given the guitarists' status as innovators on their instrument and the openness of the two-guitar format, which, Mr. Scofield said, is likely to yield a freewheeling exchange of ideas.
Careful tending of a young plant, every gardener knows, is more likely to yield a bountiful harvest.
