Most are tropical and probably rare.
Self-fertilization, however, is probably rare.
"What science is telling us now is that complex life is probably rare," he told The Times.
The S.E.C. agreed to limit the period of the expert's search to 2000 through 2004, years when earnings-smoothing products were probably rare.
The scientists discuss other planetary characteristics that are probably rare in the universe but are increasingly seen as critical for making Earth so favorable to complex life.
Reg was a Guardian and Observer-reading liberal of a kind probably rare in the real CID at the time, although, as the writer freely admitted in interviews, he was a version of his creator, disguised by gender and profession.
Purely prismatic refraction of light (sometimes confused with interference iridescence) is probably rare in animals and is limited to instances in which direct beams of light impinge upon certain microcrystalline deposits.
The tendency of fictional detectives to be more cerebral and sensitive than their real-life counterparts – PD James's Adam Dalgliesh writes poetry, Ruth Rendell's Reg Wexford was a probably rare Guardian-reading liberal in the 1960s force – follows Conan Doyle's model of the reflective detective, as does the latest top British cop: Peter James's thoughtful, haunted DCI Roy Grace.
Occasionally it sparkles—"the universe is not pregnant with the idea of ourselves," he writes, discussing his view that, thanks to the implausible rarity of the symbiosis necessary to give rise to complex life, it is probably rare in the cosmos.
Occurrence of retinitis in scrub typhus is probably rare in Indian sub-continent.
However, import of plants for planting or cut branches from Siberia to Europe is probably rare.
