Sentence examples for overall chances from inspiring English sources

They sugared the pill by making the chances of winning £1m  go up, but in fact the overall chances of winning a cash prize have gone down significantly.

The recession appears to have had little impact on the number of applications received by many of the nation's most competitive colleges, or on an applicant's overall chances of being admitted to them.

The overall chances of an audit by the Internal Revenue Service fell last year to 1 in 200, half the rate two years earlier, Commissioner Charles O. Rossotti said.

The Guardian found that, indeed, ethnic minorities disproportionately apply for the most competitive subjects, which is likely to reduce their overall chances of success.

Plus, it's working on decentralizing its own network knowledge (its own 'corporate IP' if you will) — and ultimately diluting its own paycheck by sharing that 5% cut with others — in order to increase the resilience of the network and boost the overall chances of success.

Which spelled doom for his overall chances.

Age 25 Nationality Dutch Team Giant-Alpecin The time trial stage in Bristol on the Saturday will favour the Olympic time trial silver medallist, but his overall chance in the Tour will depend on how he handles the hillier stages and the summit finish the previous day.

Players who match two numbers will win a Lucky Dip ticket for a future draw, which Camelot said would create an extra 1.8 million winners a week and increase the overall chance of winning any prize from one in 54 currently to one in 9.3.

Overall, chance performance was 24%; therefore, collectively, subjects performed better than chance on the location task.

Table 3 shows that overall chance performance in the location task was 17%.

Using this approach, Table 4 shows that overall chance performance in the location task was 23%.