Sentences with phrase «much smaller chance»

As a result, you have a much smaller chance of determining whether the new treatment is any better than the standard one.

There is also a much smaller chance with quality rubber toys that a piece will come loose from the toy and get stuck in your dog's digestive system.

Finally, there is a considerable risk that the surgery will not completely cure the hyperthyroidism, or that the condition will recur (i.e., radioiodine has a much smaller chance for recurrence)

There is a much smaller chance he selects a stock in the right hand tail.

With your eagle - eyed learners on the case, there's a much smaller chance of obsolete content slipping through the net.

As the name «homemade cough lollipops» implies, they're on a stick so there's a much smaller chance of my little one choking or simply swallowing the thing whole.

The regular investor, on the other hand, has a much smaller chance at the growth they're looking for.

I mean look at how much small chances we create when giroud is upfront... almost every game he played in we struggled to score until he nicks one at a vital time....

Not exact matches

The retailer devotes so much of its space to toys — rather than the few aisles at Walmart and Target Corp. — it can take chances on new items and smaller suppliers.

Rewards and incentives are also a great way to increase productivity in the workplace — if they know they have a chance of being rewarded with, for example, a small bonus for their hard work, they will be much more driven as they will have something to work towards.

If the chances of finding a job become very small, it would become much harder to justify making the treacherous trek (the costs would out weight the benefits).

Ironically, the trend of companies raising less capital actually enhances the importance of the initial round buy - in (both because that initial buy - in becomes less diluted meaning the first round price was that much more important and because even if an angel wants to buy up more in later rounds they'll have less of a chance to do so; I also believe that along with the trend of companies raising less capital we're also seeing earlier and somewhat smaller average exits — also enhancing the value of initial round buy - ins as fewer investors are truly swinging for the proverbial fence).

Only world - class investors like Warren Buffett can achieve 15 % + rates of return on stocks, but you have a much better chance of earning high returns like that through small - scale entrepreneurship.

Take this example: if you're a company that sells classic furniture, the chances are that your pages are never going to appear near the top of an organic search for «furniture» because there's too much competition (this is particularly true if you're a smaller company or a startup).

@God2: let me rephrase that... obviously we have no chance of changing the others way of thinking, whether he is really happy with that only he can know and as much as I wish he would look away from it, I know there is very little chance... fighting with him is futile, so I do what I do best when a person like him becomes obvious... I kill them with kindness and hopefully prove in some small way that all Atheists are not bad.

With Arsenal having already announced the signing of the German international centre back Shkodran Mustafi from Valencia and the Spanish striker Lucas Perez from Deportivo La Coruna this week, the chances of Arsene Wenger adding any more players to the Arsenal squad on transfer deadline day are much smaller.

To me, the chance we finish 1st, based on our play thus far this season, is much smaller than the chance we finish outside the top 4.

It seems that our kids are thinking that they have little chance of being promoted to the Gunners first team and if they want to play regularly they need to move to smaller clubs, mostly in Holland, where they will have much more chance of being promoted and play in proper League matches.

The reason is that with Cazorla, Coquelin and Rosicky also out, the chances of Arsene Wenger being able to give Mesut Ozil a decent rest are now much smaller.

There are senior internationals amongst them in Angban himself, Christian Atsu and Michael Hector, but even with the best will in the world only Hector has the smallest of chances of making an impression and that in itself owes much to him being the most recent signing.

There's always a chance of free - pouring too much detergent into your machine, and we found that a pump was one of the easiest and most reliable ways to meter out small amounts of soap.

Today she'd have had access to contraception, so chances are she would have had a much smaller number of children, and been able to watch practically all of them grow up healthy.

The more seats a party or grouping has, the more chance it has of forming a government - with 198 seats out of 646 the Conservative Party could only form a government if significant numbers of other MP's decided to back them, as happened in 1924 when there was a situation that the Conservatives didn't want to form a coalition with either other main party and equally the Liberals didn't want a coalition with Labour and the Liberals and Conservatives saw it as an opportunity to allow Labour into government but in a situation in which legislation was still reliant on Liberal and Conservative votes and they could be brought down at the most suitable time, supposing the notional gains were accurate and in the improbable event of the next election going exactly the same way in terms of votes then 214 out of 650 is 32.93 % of seats compared to at 198 out of 646 seats - 30.65 % of seats and the Conservative Party would then be 14 seats closer towards a total neccessary to form a government allowing for the greater number of seats, on the one hand the Conservatives need Labour to fail but equally they need to succeed themselves given that the Liberal Democrats appear likely to oppose anyone forming a government who does not embark on a serious programme to introduce PR, in addition PC & SNP would expect moves towards Independence for Scotland and Wales, the SDLP will be likely to back Labour and equally UKIP would want a committment to withdraw from Europe and anyway will be likely to be in small numbers if any, pretty much that leaves cutting a deal with the DUP which would only add the backing of an extra 10 - 13 MP's.

There is just as much chance of the New Party, who are working off the same platform as UKIP, but are better funded, taking votes off UKIP and splitting the small party vote.

There is a general expectation of this sort of squeeze as the election approaches — the nature of First Past the Post is that votes for smaller parties don't stand much chance of being translated into MPs unless they are geographically concentrated and as the election approaches the media coverage almost inevitably focuses ever more upon the main contenders (though more on that later).

While the virus is unlikely to lengthen the lives of people with glioblastoma by much, the small chance of benefit is worth investigating, says Bulstrode.

As all surgery carries some risk women must weigh up carefully how much they are troubled by their urine leakage against taking a small chance that things may go wrong as a result of surgery.»

The same plague of us - or - them absolutism that has infested the small community of self - described «climate skeptics,» wrecking any chance they could have played a positive role in critiquing mainstream climatology, now threatens to overwhelm the much larger «safe food» movement, too.

The research discovered that birds trying to breed in warm and dry springs have much better chances of surviving to the next year — a novel result that counters common assumptions about the cause of death for small birds.

She notes that the study looked at a small number of researchers and didn't examine their chances of winning funding, just how much they ultimately got.

For this reason, I decided not to use almond oil, beeswax, or coconut oil (as much as I love it) because these all have a small chance of allergic reaction.

Chewing apples, and beans, and anything with an outer husk gives the small intestine a chance to digest much more efficiently, and therefore less food to ferment and cause issues in the big intestine.

If I go into a store that has a minimal design aesthetic, chances are they will only have small, medium and large sizes and not much for our shape.

Clearly, if you used the much smaller personals database offered by many other dating services then your chances of finding the right lady or man would not be nearly as good.

He looks old here, made up with a gray beard and wizard robes, aside from his introductory scenes, he doesn't really get time or space to develop his Taoist Gandalf character, nor does he have much opportunity to show off his fighting skills, given the supernatural nature of the action (Lam Ching - ying gets such a chance in a too - small cameo role as «The Purple Taoist»).

The end result of all this work and anticipation was «Star Trek - The Motion Picture» (1979), a bloated behemoth of a film that satisfied few (though when director Robert Wise was afforded the chance to recut it years later for home video, that version did play somewhat better) but made enough money to warrant a sequel that would be produced on a much smaller scale.

We got a chance to try out both engine versions of the ATS coupe, including those fitted with Magnetic Ride Control, and came away impressed with just how much tech Cadillac has been able to pack into a relatively small package.

If VW is leaving out the Scirocco here because it would cannibalize sales from the GTI, then it's doubtful VW would take the chance on the much smaller production numbers of the R20.

A small press publisher takes a larger chance on you because they have small print runs, but that also means they spend much more time with you, and you have a smaller risk of having to mold your work to fit what they think the industry wants (as is sometimes the case with larger publishers).

Contracts are much more difficult these days and if you get a small deal, chances are they will want all rights forever.

After all, publishers have been taking chances on much smaller print runs for much more risky authors than ones with proven fanbases for a long time — it's pretty much been their whole business model.

We got a chance to play around with the new Kindle for a short time, and while Amazon wouldn't immediately let us photograph it side by side with the old Kindle, the new model is clearly smaller and sleeker and the screen definitely pops a little more, much like the new Kindle DX's screen does.

The chance of failure is much smaller.

Although puppies can contract diseases by picking up even small amounts of feces or other kinds of excrement left behind by sick dogs in public places, the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) asserts that eventual dog behavior problems stemming from lack of puppy socialization are of much more concern than the chance of your puppy contracting a disease from a public place.

There is a small chance that fluid therapy could have been too much for a weakened heart but if so, it was still not wrong to try it, since it was the only viable choice for long term treatment success.

So it may be because the risk of cancer increases so much, and because large dogs are at such a higher risk of dying of cancer (roughly 50 % chance), that large dogs generally have shorter lives than small dogs (roughly 10 % chance of dying of cancer).

• The chances of a dog developing serious behavior problems is much higher for dogs purchased as puppies from pet stores, as compared to obtaining dogs from small, noncommercial breeders.

The temple of Banteay Srey is much smaller compared to Angkor Wat, but offers a chance to see some more intricate and older (c. 10th century) carvings and to also avoid some of the crowds.

Here we sometimes light a small fire on the beach in the evenings (not much chance of bush fire here, but we are still VERY careful!)

At the lower levels, your chances are much smaller, especially during busy travel periods and on main - hub routes.