Sentences with phrase «time roll of the dice»

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.

Not exact matches

Once in Vegas I prayed for a four to come up each of 600 times I rolled a dice, and God answered my prayers about a hundred times.

Its a roll of the dice and we've been living on borrow time.

With games against two extremely defensive - minded sides (Stoke and Chelsea) coming up on either side of a Champions League fixture midweek; maybe its time for the manager to roll the dice.

The use of the «Post Code Lottery «is only to draw attention to the fact that people are placed in n invidious position to one or another extent, for many its amounts to a # 10,000 one time tax based on the roll of a dice and that a mile away others avoid the axe only heightens the sense of injustice OK Personally I am unconvinced by the minor sub theme of localism which has after all been tested to destruction by the likes of Enver Hodge and Hit Man Hatton but this is a very different context but is it not possible to have localism for some things, planning for example, and not others... why yes I think that might actually be possible even for dim witted bureaucrats.

At each oscillation, the switch opens for a short time and grants the cell a short window in which it can use noise as a «roll of the dice» to decide whether to escape into competence.

For example, in the 17th century the question came up, do you have the same chance of throwing a six by rolling one die four times or of throwing two sixes by rolling two dice 24 times?

The chance of a double six with a good pair of dice is one in thirty six, so to check if we are getting slightly too many of them, you need to roll the dice hundreds of times (unfortunately, for the weather dice, we can't work out how the odds of a rare event have changed simply by looking at more frequent events, like a single six).

Two years after «Think Like a Man» introduced us to four couples, Story and his cast — which includes Kevin Hart, Gabrielle Union, Michael Ealy, and Meagan Good — are back for another roll of the dice in the game of love, this time with a romp through Las Vegas.

Students quickly make the visual connection between the theoretical probability of rolling two six - sided dice many times and the experimental probability of the same event through rolling the dice in the game and recording them in the frequency chart.

Display pictures - Large A4 coloured pictures of things to do with bonfire night and the story of Guy Fawkes Colouring pictures - Large black and white pictures Display border - Each piece is decorated with pictures and can be printed as many times as you need for a display board of any size Songs and rhymes - Six decorated songs and rhyme cards related to Bonfire Night for the children to learn - 2 of these rhymes are number rhymes so would be great for your maths lessons A4 border - Individual A4 sized page with a border - great for adding work to ready for the display or for the children to use in the writing area Questions - Question cards each decorated with colour pictures Topic words - Words about Guy Fawkes and Bonfire Night each decorated with fireworks Fireworks - Colour photos of fireworks - great for discussion and displays Houses of Parliament - Colour photos of The Houses of Parliament Counting card - Rocket counting cards Dice game - Two different sheets with a black and white firework picture - roll the die and colour the correct part of the firework Literacy Worksheets - Various worksheets such as completing the sentences about fireworks, true and false worksheet about Guy Fawkes, describing fireworks, writing safety instructions Maths Worksheets - Make the rocket symmetrical, complete the addition and subtraction sums on the fireworks plus blank calculation sheets so you can differentiate the sums Ideas - An ideas sheet with lots of ideas to cover different areas of the curriculum when teaching about Bonfire Night and the Gunpowder Plot Cutting skills - Cut out the parts of the firework and assemble - there are two different sheets Safety Posters - Eight posters about firework safety for the children to colour Picture dominoes - A colour dominoes game Guy Fawkes pictures - Pictures from old documents about Guy Fawkes and the plot Draw the fireworks - A colour and a black and white worksheet Size worksheet - Cut out and order the rockets in size order - in colour and black and white Matching pairs game - Match the coloured Bonfire Night pictures Rhyme - «Remember, Remember the Fifth of November» - A decorated rhyme card

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.

There are times when it is cut and dry the module is bad, but MOST of the time it is a dice roll.

Unlike the real game of craps where the odds of rolling a seven are statistically predictable ahead of time (one in six rolls of two dice), Amazon's dice are loaded.

As stated by David Kappos, director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, «Time and time again, the story of American growth is written by the daring drive of entrepreneurs, who are willing to roll the dice on a great idea.&raTime and time again, the story of American growth is written by the daring drive of entrepreneurs, who are willing to roll the dice on a great idea.&ratime again, the story of American growth is written by the daring drive of entrepreneurs, who are willing to roll the dice on a great idea.»

If you don't want to drive to the store and roll the dice, do the online version of this deal to save yourself time.

This is easily the part of the game that annoys me the most because in a single turn you could potentially end up having to stop and roll dice up to eight times which doesn't create a nice rhythm

It has happened a few times before, but the success of which is kind of a dice roll.

A fresh take on the series, Star Rush breaks free of turn order and allows each player to roll the dice at the same time through five wild worlds filled with bite - sized, open maps.

Digital translations of the dice rolling, piece prodding, card shuffling past - time have been mightily successful often adding rather than detracting from the experience, just look at the adult market with Dawn of War, Blood Bowl, Space Hulk, Dungeons & Dragons and more WWII based strategy games than you can shake a fist full of D12 at.

While the previous two Shadowrun games handled combat in real - time, Shadowrun for the Mega CD employed a turn - based tactical system in the style of Shining Force or Arc the Lad with combat results decided by animated rolling dice.

Wayne Gonzales, The New Yorker November 30, 2009, p. 14 Johnson, Ken, Every Revolution Is a Roll of the Dice, The New York Times, Friday, February 6, p. 27 Wilson, Michael, Every Revolution Is a Roll of the Dice, Time Out New York, January 29 - February 4, No. 696, p. 49, illus.

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».

There is an even more severe problem, that makes me think that GCM are not in the «maybe usefull» class but quite certainly in the «no more useful than dice rolling» class: the dynamic of short timescale and lenghtscale is not reproduced, even if the model is in theory able to catch those (time and grid resolution).

Times are tough, but like every developer, Marty Liss is willing to roll the dice, thinking short term instead of long; there are enough fools out there to buy what he is building.

So, in effect, to pin down the role of human influence on climate in 2013, we need to roll the weather dice again thousands of times.