Sentence examples for shot in terms from inspiring English sources

Even a reasonably well-defended 3-point shot is better than an open midrange shot in terms of scoring efficiency.

This is not the worst breach of all time by a long shot in terms of pure numbers.

On the Apple side, it's no great surprise to find out that he was considered rather a "long shot" in terms of everything but his technical knowledge.

"We know in terms of being two [points] down in this competition we've got to give it our best shot in terms of where we want to go in this competition.

Bush said he hopes the leaders take the paintings "in the spirit of friendship," saying he was "willing to give it a shot, in terms of getting people to see how I felt about them".

The District is 2 1 Republican, and so my challenge to Mr. Goodlatte in 2012, as the Democratic nominee for the District's seat in Congress, was a very long shot in terms of winning the seat.

Peter Joseph, at KBC Peel Hunt, said the nature of the group's joint venture agreement formed two years ago with Bank of Scotland to acquire Heritage Hotels for £235m meant "the bank called the shots" in terms of who it worked with.

By classifying video shots in terms of the shot complexity and shot duration, and then performing indexing adaptively based on the video shot classes, it was shown in [9, 30] that, indeed, adaptation could be used to improve both the precision and recall simultaneously, without introducing an intolerable amount of extra computation.

SLIT also differs from allergy shots in terms of how often it is given.

This is due to the difficulty of defining a general fatigue design approach that is able to correctly and quantitatively consider the effect of shot peening, in terms of residual stresses, surface work hardening and surface roughness alteration.

This was not a classic case of execution — five players missed an opportunity to hit a game-winning shot — and in terms of an N.C.A.A. tournament berth there really wasn't much on the line for either team.