Sentence examples for sufficiently unlikely from inspiring English sources

Now declarer played on diamonds and would have gone down if West had started with the club king, diamond ace and five spades, which was sufficiently unlikely that South's line satisfied the Karpin-Kay-Silodor requisite.

SMD's Jas shaw told THUMP that, "Although we had decided not to do any remixes while we got stuck into making some new SMD stuff the prospect of remixing something by Ilya, a young modern classical composer, seemed a sufficiently unlikely pairing that we immediately knew that we ought to have a go.

This implies that, in the long run and for sufficiently unlikely perturbations, the system tends to spend most of the time at the EQ state.

The question of whether this is sufficiently unlikely to suggest that there is a real effect is highly subjective.

Similarly the P value for the Bussman trial indicates that 1 in 100 trials would have an odds ratio of 0.24 or more extreme by chance alone; this is a smaller probability than in the previous trial but, in isolation, perhaps still not sufficiently unlikely to alter clinical care in practice.

Is there a magic number of randomized patients or observed events in each arm that makes the probability of committing an alpha error sufficiently unlikely (no matter the condition or population) to justify classifying a study as level I or high level evidence?

However, no low-income country has reduced mortality for under-fives sufficiently and they are unlikely to meet that MDG target.

Completeness of follow-up was considered adequate if losses were not related to the exposure or the outcome and was sufficiently low to be unlikely to introduce bias.

Discharge policies may affect survival rates but since infants are usually discharged only when they are sufficiently well, it is unlikely that discharge policies will significantly affect our results.

Completeness of follow-up was considered adequate if all patients were accounted for or if the number lost to follow-up was sufficiently low to be unlikely to introduce bias.

Under these conditions, a simplistic model of evolution is unlikely to sufficiently account for homoplasy, and long branches will be connected (or attracted to one another) in the inferred tree based on homoplastic similarities [ 11].