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Usage examples of chances.

Takeoff was under minimum thrust, not that the triply buffered embryos could suffer damage had she blasted off with all power, but Helva preferred to take no unnecessary chances and there was plenty of time to reach Nekkar in Bootes' sector.

It would take too long and the chances of success with Mabel's brain space were unlikely.

You're not improving your patient's chances for survival by working on him as if he was an unaware piece of technological scrap that needs repair.

The cruise line was taking no chances on emergencies in transit, and their health questionnaires were comprehensive.

Lunzie rapidly assessed her chances of talking her way out of this tight spot.

Dupaynil wondered if die Door of Honor ignored servants or if they, too, had to take their chances with death.

You will report to your ambassador, and then to the Grand Luck where great chances await you.

Come on in and take your chances with the rest of us," someone encouraged her.

The more we find out before the team gets sent out, the more we make ourselves essential to the dig, the better our chances for that promotion.

Since she was with Archeology and Exploration as a courier, there were lots of chances for her to see things that the surveyors might not, and I kind of told her what to look for.

Fred and Aldon had only been part of a crew of hundreds with an Excavation team—where there were more people to interact with, fewer chances for personality stress, and no real trials to face but the day to day boredom of repetitive work.

If this disease got loose in a large, space-going population, the chances of checking it before millions died were slender.

Pure topological theory might prove the existence of a decomposition series, but actually forcing a ship through that series required massive linear programming optimizations, all performed in realtime with no second chances for mistakes.

Because when Faul had balked at giving her complete ownership of the company, Fassa had leaned elegantly on his desk and speculated aloud about her chances of getting a position with one of the major newsbeamers.

Which was a difficult thing, if you'd gone under deeply concerned about your chances of ever waking up again.