Sentences with phrase «first roll of the dice»

The introduction of Abdelhamid Sabiri in place of Joe Lolley proved to be the first roll of the dice after the interval.

Our first roll of the dice landed us not far off the coast of the southern African nation of Namibia.

The main difference is this: your money equals a new life for a dog that completely lost out on his first roll of the dice.

Downtown Grand soft opened on October 27th, 2013, with Andrea Hissom (wife of Steve Wynn) tossing the first roll of the dice, a fact disputed by the property but reported by local scenester Norm!

Not exact matches

«When you shoot a special, you have no idea what's going to happen, and the fact that I got to do the first one with Comedy Dynamics was a roll of the dice.

MagKey isn't Ho's first roll of the entrepreneurial dice.

I'm not saying wait till the fourth round to pick a QB, I'm just saying top of the first round is the same roll of the dice as a good prospect that slips.

So you'd rather roll the dice outside the top of the first round because some anomalies panned out?

Boykin's place on this list is shaky — having the raw undrafted rookie out of TCU be the first man up in the event of an injury to Russell Wilson would be a big - time roll of the dice for a Seattle team that plans to play deep into January — but he is fun to watch even when things aren't going perfectly.

It is a bit like rolling a series of dice — if you roll a six, it is unlikely to be the first six to occur if many other dice have been rolled already.

Unless you spend most of your festival rolling the dice on first features and movies by largely unknown filmmakers,...

The pack includes: Display banner - A long banner for a display with pictures Father Christmas - A large picture of Father Christmas for your displays Display lettering - Large letters to spell out «Father Christmas» decorated in red and whte stripes Number line - A number line to 50 on Christmas doors Alphabet line - An alphabet line on Elves Story words - Word cards with words relating to the story - great to include in your writing area Counting cards - Cards from 1 - 10 with different numbers of drinks to count Speech bubble worksheets - Various worksheets to fill in the speech bubbles Word mat - An A4 word mat with pictures to help when writing about the story Face masks - Colour and black and white face masks of Father Christmas and Elves to use for story telling and role play Father Christmas model - Make a model of Father Christmas using split pins Playdough mats - Various colourful mats to use with play dough for counting and Christmas Matching pairs - A colourful matching pairs game to make and play Colour Elves - Different coloured elves with the colour name Worksheet - Design a new drink for Father Christmas Christmas tree game - Spin the spinner and collect different decorations for your tree Banner - A long «Happy Christmas» banner for your classroom decorated with holly leaves Worksheets - Various worksheets to draw different parts of the story, to draw your food and drink for Father Christmas and to design a sleigh for Father Christmas Game - Deliver all the presents in your sleigh first to win the game Maths worksheets - Various worksheets with counting, addition, subtraction and symmettry Design a decoration - Design a new decoration for your Christmas tree Decorations - Various Christmas decorations to cut out and colour Game - Roll a die and cover the numbered star in the night sky - plus a version to use two dice and add the numbers together and cover the number Please note: The art work used in these resources has been produced by ourselves.

Following the MEP scheme, students are to play a game where two dice a rolled and they have to predict what it will be first of all (i.e. how many times they will reach their chosen numbers etc.) they then play the game and an actual result will formulate and answers should be similar through the whole class.

Ask yourself whether a reasonable person should roll the dice in the markets with their entire retirement plan, and thereby consciously choose to forego the peace of mind that can be found through the first 4 components above.

The game is based first of all on the outcome of rolling dice, so depending on your luck, the game could end very quickly, or Bowser might never be able to catch up.

In the first «take» performers step in and out of roles such as «Painter,» «Director,» and «Dancer,» improvising and repeating actions around a set of parameters put into motion by the rolling of dice.

While at first sight that might appear to be the more relevant statistic, it actually is a case like rolling the dice only twelve times: as Emanuel's calculations showed, the number of landfalling storms is simply far too small to get a meaningful result, as those data represent «less than a tenth of a percent of the data for global hurricanes over their whole lifetimes».

The odds of getting a 7 in ten rolls of the dice is different from the odds of getting a 7 in the FIRST of ten rolls of the dice.

To return to the dice - rolling experiment, under a Bayesian approach, for the first experiment to test whether the die is fair (the hypothesis), it is reasonable to set the prior at 0.5, i.e., in the absence of any information whatsoever, there is an equal chance that my hypothesis is true or false.

Ask yourself whether a reasonable person should roll the dice in the markets with their entire retirement plan, and thereby consciously choose to forego the peace of mind that can be found through the first 4 components above.

Most cite their hard work and diligence first, giving the roll of the dice last billing in the achievement department.