Sentence examples for still improbable from inspiring English sources

If a home semi-final is still improbable the defending champions are finishing strongly and this six-try chopping of the Chiefs was their biggest league win for a year.

Commentators especially picked up on the idea that a coupling of this kind – ebony and ivory, living in perfect harmony, as someone else once sang – is still improbable in post-apartheid South Africa, even if Withers has said: "I'd be cautious to ever think of ourselves as a progressive band representing any sort of social change".

Of course, it is possible that men write two-thirds of fiction or (more likely, but still improbable) two-thirds of the kinds of fiction such book editors assign – but those assigning decisions are the product of a whole hierarchy of taste that has gender built into it.

And he is still in the running, however improbable given the team's fortunes, to become the first Met to win a Cy Young Award since Dwight Gooden in 1985.

That still looks improbable, though it has to be said that many improbable things - nationalisation of large chunks of the UK banking system, for example - have happened in the past 18 months.

But success still seems improbable.

Serious progress in the immediate future still looks improbable.

ARMED conflict between Japan and China over the five tiny, uninhabited Senkaku or Diaoyu islands still seems improbable.

At 60, he is still an improbable mixture of theatrical shrewdness and political idealism.

They will celebrate a radio success story that still sounds improbable, even in hindsight.

In Hebron the prospects of the settlements surviving a peace agreement seemed still more improbable.