Sentences with phrase «less than chance»

As Bart says above, a model that contributes LESS than chance (to explaining spatial trend variance) can actually be a source of important information.

Short (hours and days) medium (weeks and months) and long term (decades) forecasts are all wrong, being close to or less than chance in almost every case.

Puppy vaccinations are a huge part of responsible puppy care, and your puppy deserves no less than every chance to be healthy and happy for life.

Between the non-stop action and the lack of a strong male lead, your chance of hooking up after taking someone to this movie is slightly less than the chance that «Ultraviolet» will win the Best Picture Oscar in 2007.

If it's any comfort, Chodas explains that the chance of asteroid SG344's colliding with Earth in 2030 is less than the chance that an undiscovered object of the same size will hit Earth in any given year.

Not exact matches

Chances of getting hit are less than one in a trillion, reports CNBC's Morgan Brennan, with a look at the growing threat of space junk landing on the planet.

If you really suck at doing something, chances are there is someone out there that can probably do it for less than $ 5 / hr.

But the numbers drop pretty fast when certain niceties are specified — such as $ 100,000 - and - up price tags, the likelihood of severe motion sickness, dizziness, and acceleration - induced unconsciousness, as well as an unknown but certainly less than trivial chance of being incinerated in a rocket explosion or errant atmospheric reentry.

Chances are you know less about emotional intelligence (EI) than you think, but for those on the leadership track, a better understanding of it can make all the difference.

Chances are, the more melanin you have, the less likely you would show up as anything more attractive than a smudge, a muddy smirk — or worse, a lurking presence — as you hovered in the back row of the chess club photo.

You may be doing great, but the chances of your getting promoted in less than a year or two are pretty slim.

Conversely, 36 % of Canada's employed labour force falls into the low - risk category, including registered nurses, elementary teachers, early childhood educators, and secondary school teachers — all of which fall within a less than 1 % chance of automation.

Investors also had a 95 % chance of earning nearly three times their initial investment, while traditional savers had less than a 3 % chance.

The chance the chosen flip is a heads - equal to the percentage of heads in the bucket - we claim is less than 50 percent.

Chances are, they reflect timid thinking and less - than - creative planning.

Among the data's revelations are that in many parts of the Deep South, people have less than a 5 % chance of going from the bottom income level to the top.

That means you have less than a 1 percent chance of becoming a Chick - fil - A franchisee.

Traders on the fed funds futures market now are indicating a less than 50 percent chance that the central bank will move three times this year.

«It is also clear that the government has made the considered decision that it is better off securing such crypto - legislative authority from the courts [than] taking the chance that open legislative debate might produce a result less to its liking.»

As months turn into years, you may find that staying in the office is less risky than taking a chance on pitching your business to potential clients or expanding to a new location.

Your chances of raising money from any given VC fund are less than 0.5 percent.

Investors love warrants because they offer an extra chance to share in a company's upside potential — in cases in which the warrant is exercisable at a preset purchase price that turns out to be less than the stock's market value.

Researchers found that more than two hours of non-work-related social media use per day was correlated with double the chance of feeling social isolation compared with those who spent a half hour or less per day on such platforms.

Let's say you do want to give (or hint strongly that you'd like to receive) a monetary gift, but not cash — something more interesting, less likely to be spent idly, and with a chance of growing at more than zero - point - something percent.

But for minor, day - to - day decisions (for example, whether to take this flight or that flight, or try this jam or that one), mind wandering may be a less onerous way to sort through the options than careful deliberation — and chances are you'll be just as satisfied with the outcome.

Less than three months after Yahoo balked at an old - media acquisition, it got a second chance to alter its fate.

Not only it's more attractive, your post also get a higher chance of landing in the first pages in the search results since it's more specific and there's less competition for the latter phrase (a.k.a long tail keywords) than the former.

Under current policies, the IEA puts the chances of holding global temperature increases to less than 2 degrees — the threshold at which global warming tips us into the danger zone — at a scant 2 percent.

If you're not aspiring to lead this great nation of ours, your chances of being audited are less than 1 %.

If you're consistently forgetting to pay by the due date, if you're paying multiple annual fees but spending less than $ 20,000 on credit cards each year, or if you're not paying off balances each month, then chances are you have too many credit cards.

If you make a down payment of less than 20 % when using a mortgage loan, there's a good chance you will have to pay for private mortgage insurance or PMI.

On what the Fed will do, David thinks the Fed will tighten this September although he also mentions that with the recent market volatility, the chances of that happening is less than 50 %.

European bonds have even lower yields than dollar - denominated bonds and, if they have less chance of capital losses in 2017, they are unlikely to add a capital gain to those piddling yields.

«Generally applicants with a debt - to - income of less than 50 % will have a higher chance of approval.»

If you put down less than 20 % for your down payment, chances are you'll be on the hook to pay private mortgage insurance.

As an investment, a drug that is in the discovery or pre-clinical stage is a very risky proposition, with less than a 1 % chance of getting to market (according to an industry report published in 2003 by the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America).

A total payment including taxes and insurance is less than 31 % of your income means there's a good chance you qualify.

Spotify's business model may give it a chance to stand out from companies like King Digital Entertainment — makers of popular mobile game Candy Crush — which received a less - than - sweet reception in its public stock debut yesterday.

By the New York Fed's calculation, this means there is less than a 5 % chance of a recession in the United States in the next 12 months.

The collective intelligence of the group is surely less than the sum of its parts, and the more people on a committee, the less chance it has to be wise and crisp in its decision making.

If a stock is selling for less than its intrinsic value, chances are this will ultimately be recognised and the market price will rise to a level more indicative of the company's worth.

«Despite this tightening of restrictions from the two biggest advertising platforms, there is little chance that this will have a major impact on the flow of traffic to the top cryptocurrency exchange sites, given that until now paid search was responsible for less than 1 % of their traffic.»

I'm not saying there is an absolute zero (as in less than.000000000000001) chance there is a god.

In comparison, researchers found that if a retired person exercised significantly once a week before retiring and maintained this amount after retirement, they had a 3 % chance of dying in the next six years, a 6 % chance if they decreased this frequency to less than weekly and an 11 % chance if they stopped exercising vigorously altogether.

As an example, warning someone that there is a less than 10 % chance of rain and suggesting they carry an umbrella is only going to get you laughed at.

Look at how much trouble less than a century of nuclear power has already caused on this planet... what are the chances of something more catastrophic happening with that and / or more powerful technologies that develop over the next several hundred years?

Yep, but if you don't have any more variables than I have and you reject logic and you just make up explanations that have no supporting evidence your chances of being right are even less than mine.

Even if we narrow it down to the 72 disciples that Jesus sent out to minister in the countryside, the fact that less than 5 people stood by Jesus as the cross gives us a less than a 7 % chance that you or I would have been there.

So I got down on my knees and prayed for God to teach me to love like Christ loved and that's when it started less than an hour later I was given the chance to love someone that I would call unlovable like christ loved this man was lying about me to the point it could have ruined my career of 10 years.

You laugh at the Supernatural, even though scientists have calculated the odds of life forming by natural processes to be estimated less than 1 chance in 10 to the 40, ooo power — But you find nothing wrong with believing that billions of years full of random mutations would result in the impossible.