Sentence examples for respectable chance of from inspiring English sources

They must beat Sri Lanka - and then South Africa on Saturday - to have a respectable chance of staying in the tournament.

Good chance of fixing.

I make this to be a respectable 31.25% chance of penalties.

Minutes after the returns started coming in, revealing that Fiorina had no chance of making a respectable showing, the former business executive acknowledged that she was "sad at first but then I realized that every failure is an opportunity, and in this case I had an opportunity to give some people the axe".

Yet in the first round of voting on April 21st he now has a fair chance of a notching up a respectable score of, say, 6% or 7%—nearly double the figure predicted by pollsters a month or two ago.The explanation is simple enough.

I wanted to write back to tell him that rather than flogging bogus legacies to random strangers he stood a better chance of making a buck by turning the imaginative intricacy of his fiction into, well, fiction of a more respectable kind.

Small chance of rain.

Slight chance of rain.

No chance of that.

Chance of crashing?

Fat chance of that.