Sentences with phrase «percent chance of that happening»

It seems guaranteed that the games will be played today, especially after yesterday's game had a 90 percent chance of happening (and there's been roughly 20 more hours to do repairs on the roof).

People regularly ignore risks, but isn't it the extreme scenario — the thing that has the 1 percent chance of happening, the so - called long tail at each end of the bell curve — that causes all the trouble?

An earthquake in the eastern Aleutian Trench big enough to generate a massive tsunami like the one in the study is expected to occur once every thousand years, meaning that there is a 0.1 percent chance of it happening in any given year — the same probability as the 2011 Tohoku earthquake that struck Japan, according to Gerard Fryer, a geophysicist at the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Ewa Beach, Hawaii.

You have about a seventy percent chance of happening upon a topic about nerfs, a request for respecs, or a thread japing about the recent nerf of this or that.

In some areas the rainfall was enough to qualify as a 500 - year or 1,000 - year event, something that has only a 0.2 percent or 0.1 percent chance of happening in a given year.

«If I thought there was a more than 1 percent chance of that happening, I wouldn't put that in there,» Extell's president, Gary Barnett, said in an interview.

After all, meteorologists have said the August rainfall was an event that has a 0.2 or even a 0.1 percent chance of happening in a given year.

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Given that 75 percent of all victims experience retaliation for reporting, the chances are pretty good that harassment is happening a lot more frequently than we think.

The CME's Fed Watch tool, which uses fed fund futures trading levels to determine the likelihood of a hike at each meeting, indicates that a better than 50 percent chance of a move doesn't happen until the December FOMC session.

Because should the couple have a divorce years down the road (and there is 50 percent chance this will happen), the breadwinner will be required to pay the part time working spouse a portion of his (her?)

With any single line of evidence, you can say, «Oh, well, there's still a 25 percent chance it's random,» but what happens when you put all these events together?

If we have a 50 percent chance of rain today, and the storm veers off and doesn't happen, then the rain never gets to us.

«Maybe we can say [a given area is] 10, 100 or 1,000 times more dangerous than usual, but that's still only a 2 percent chance of an earthquake happening any given day or week.»

If you happen to bump into on the streets of L.A., there's a 90 percent chance she'll be rocking a perfect blowout, a big pair of sunnies and these «Ferris» denim flares.

While Match.com's Happen Magazine reports that only 9 percent of women and 2 percent of men say they've found a relationship at a bar or club, that's still a chance.

Then your chances of success are much greater, in fact probably 50 percent or greater and it really does not matter if you think your ugly or fat or skinny, when your introduced to a girl or woman by a friend, you have a much greater chance of making something happen.

«If CAFE doesn't drop a bomb on us, there is a 98 percent chance that it will happen,» said Scott Sweeney, assistant manager of Dodge public relations.

In the rigorous world of high - energy physics, researchers wait to see a 5 - sigma signal, which has only a 0.000028 percent probability of happening by chance, before claiming a «discovery.»

Is even a thousandth of a percent chance of this sort of thing happening again work the risk?

«They transfer that two tenths of a percent chance that the nuke melts down or the oil spill happens, or whatever the abomination is, to the state.

If the Nest doesn't happen to guess right 100 percent of the time, there's a pretty good chance that I'm the problem.

There is a 73 percent chance a recession will happen by 2020, according to the quarterly survey, and of the more than 100 respondents, the majority expect the slump to majorly affect housing in Miami and San Francisco — and Los Angeles and New York, to a lesser extent — but only moderately impact the market as a whole.