One recent chance to possibly enhance their public image -- or at least increase their exposure -- was left untaken.
So I feel a bit cheated at losing out on this most recent chance to earn his admiration.
At a recent chance meeting with Mr. Giuliani at the Cigar Bar, Mr. Kelly said, the mayor was warm, gracious and funny.
The next opportunity for amateur astronomers to see the plume is in 2016 — though at the most recent chance, in April 2014, astronomers didn't spot any of the clouds.
The land was surveyed, mapped and known until a recent chance discovery revealed that for all their attention, scientists had completely overlooked a Neolithic treasure that utterly eclipses all others on Orkney – and in the rest of Europe.
Alternatively these TnPZs might have spread rapidly after a recent chance introduction, e.g., of a European TnPZ into the Shimaa population.
Things could yet break the right way for the European captain both today and in the coming fortnight, but given his recent luck the chances are they will not.
If dumbing-down is the accusation most often hurled at British television in recent times, chances are the programmes complained of are, if not Dyke's children, then his grandchildren.
If it has four legs and has been served at a high-end London restaurant in recent years, chances are Turner – executive chef at Hawksmoor and Foxlow, and the power behind Pitt Cue Co and Islington butcher Turner and George – has had something to do with it.
In other words, if you spot a trend in the recent past, chances are that the trend will continue in the future.
