Sentence examples for odds for this from inspiring English sources

"Edmond, do you know the Vegas odds for this fight?" "Three-ninety-five," he called back.

Since we know so little about life's origin, it's difficult to give odds for this.

But their success is based on their home record, and with five defeats away from Valley Parade the odds for this tie are not in their favour.

There's Alma, who wants only to return to the "horrible daily business of owning your own life", and whose nurse gives her temazepam with the wry aside, "Folk are paying over the odds for this in Paisley and here's you getting it for free" – darkly continuing that the hospital will "be private this time next year, you wait and see.

The odds for this are low, though.

Call your own odds for this one... OK, those are the main options.

At this value of RIS, the odds for the RRR group was three times the odds for the other five groups (log odds 1.124, odds 3.1).

This is designed for people who need a reliable and (unlike a petrol-driven generator) clean power source, and are prepared to pay a little over the odds for it.If this technology is indeed becoming commercial rather than experimental, it will have had a veritably mammoth gestation.

We did not expect, however, to find that smoking decreased the odds for MetS; this might possibly be an effect of the appetite reducing properties of nicotine [ 33].

In the scenario above, although your pot odds are 5 1, if there are 2 other people in the hand 'behind' you that haven't acted yet, and they each have $1 in their hand, waiting for you to call so they can call (bad poker etiquette), your implied odds, for just this round of betting, instantly rise to 7 1, as an example.

The odds for this week's award are against Joshua Ferris, whose To Rise Again at a Decent Hour ingeniously pits a dentist against the internet, and Karen Joy Fowler's We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, which is emotive, philosophical, and the only shortlisted novel not published by Penguin Random House.