Sentence examples for reasonable odds from inspiring English sources
There were about 10 able-bodied refugees, she said, about the same number of fishermen — reasonable odds, but for the guns.
Mr. Issenberg: Those are probably reasonable odds, as the fundamental structure of the race looks to be in Perry's favor at the moment.
Had the race been won by the 5-to-2 favorite, MEDAGLIA D'ORO, or another horse at reasonable odds, producing a much smaller payoff, officials might have never uncovered the computer fraud.
For more than three decades, NASA defied all reasonable odds as it grew into a multibillion-dollar bureaucracy with tens of thousands of managers, scientists, engineers and technicians, yet somehow remained true to the intoxicating audacity and technical mastery that gave it life.
Not so good, according to Tim Brown at Yahoo Sports, are four teams that had excellent press going into the season: "You'd have gotten reasonable odds that by now the Los Angeles Angels, Toronto Blue Jays, Los Angeles Dodgers and Washington Nationals would have established themselves as possibly dominant teams.
After sampling three bowls of porridge, Goldilocks can make reasonable odds as to whether a bowl of porridge is too hot, too cold, or just right.
It is a truth universally acknowledged about dating in Silicon Valley that for single women in possession of reasonable fortune, "the odds are good, but the goods are odd".
Which is exactly what Tiger did in 1997 at Augusta and then in 2000 at Pebble Beach — so maybe the comparisons between the two, McIlory and Woods, are justified, the short odds reasonable.
Unlike horse racing, where even the favorite produces reasonable returns, the odds on dog racing are much shorter.
It is random and it is chaotic, and even if your reasonable behaviour lessens the odds of your being hurt or killed, it guarantees you nothing.
Speaking ahead of an emergency meeting of EU foreign ministers, Mr Hague said that the Ukrainian government was putting itself at odds with "reasonable opinion all across the world".
