Sentence examples for not so unlikely from inspiring English sources

"I'm fairly certain about one thing: if turnout is lower in 2012 than in 2008 (which is not so unlikely), then there will be fewer 'swing voters' turning out," Markus Prior, an associate professor of politics and public affairs at Princeton University, wrote in an e-mail.

Yet, on a closer inspection, "it seems not so unlikely that these probabilities can be derived on the basis of the equations of motion alone…" (WA I, 317).

(Perhaps not so unlikely, considering that there were fourteen original candidates seeking the Republican party nomination).

If Wolf were to come up out of his grave -- when you're listening to his records, that doesn't seem so unlikely -- he might be baffled by 50 Cent or the White Stripes; in 1972, when he opened for Alice Cooper, the sight of a stage-prop guillotine gave him a minor heart attack.

If a problem popped up so quickly on the radar, it doesn't seem so unlikely that the DSi may have trouble with extant cartridges; I'm sure they designed it for compatibility, but who knows what effect the minor architecture changes and firmware tweaks have had.

Yet the comparison may not be quite so unlikely, given what is about to happen in the high court this week, where a revolt of a different sort of aristocracy is about to begin from two groups of people accorded automatic respect today: victims and celebrities.

We excluded deaths prior to the first cycle, but there were only 329(9%) versus 35 (11%), which was not statistically significant, so unlikely to impact the results (because the survival time was <1 month in both treatment groups, the mean OS and PFS would be very similar).

Only a year later, however, the mood in the beauty halls is markedly different and suddenly the idea of a black lipstick doesn't seem half so unlikely.

Something that seemed inconceivable just four years ago doesn't seem quite so unlikely any more.

There has to be hopes that it is the former - if they can stay on this form, then there could be an exciting new chapter for the Libertines ahead, something which seemed awfully unlikely not so long ago.

Variants in regions of the genome that are not well covered by SNPs on the GWAS array will not be incorporated in the estimates, although the proportion of the genome that is not well covered is small, so unlikely to greatly affect the estimates.