Sentence examples for marvellous chance from inspiring English sources

We seesawed back and forth until I thought I saw a marvellous chance for a coup.

Hartlepool, prompted shrewdly by Paul Stephenson, hit the post through Ian Clark in the first half and Craig Midgley squandered a marvellous chance in the second.

Photograph: Chuck Burton/AP Updated at 4.48pm BST 4.36pm BST McDowell clips a gorgeous shot to six feet at 14. He's got a marvellous chance to move to -2 for the tournament.

27 min: Diego Milito misses another marvellous chance, sidefooting across the face of goal and wide as he tried to curl the ball around Victor Valdes and inside the far post from a narrowish angle about 12 yards out.

4.06pm GMT 46 min: Seydou Keita blows a marvellous chance to pull a goal back for Mali, getting to a low pull-back from the bye-line and shooting wide of the right upright from about 10 yards when it looked easier to score.

Human life is a marvellous web of chance meetings and coincidences – the person you've just bumped into in an airport gift shop is a hitman on his way to murder your brother's wife.

As the Crues produced a marvellous late flourish, David Rainey volleyed a glorious chance wide on 81 while man of the match Chris Morrow was then denied by a superb Gary Rogers save.

Still, I'm glad of the chance to reacquaint you with this marvellous primer, a favourite among industry insiders.

Speaking to the London Evening Standard, Arnesen said: "At Chelsea, we had fantastic talent, we built up marvellous players, but they needed to be given a chance and they never were.

Hislop said, "Tonight is a chance to take a dispassionate look back at how marvellous we are".

O'Sullivan has half a chance and he gets to work with a couple of marvellous pots.