chance of recovery

collocation in English

meaningsofchanceandrecovery

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chance
noun
uk
/tʃɑːns/us
/tʃæns/
an occasion that allows something to ...
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recovery
noun[S or U]
uk
/rɪˈkʌv.ər.i/us
/rɪˈkʌv.ɚ.i/
the process of becoming well again after an illness ...
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(Definition ofchanceandrecoveryfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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With a sympathetic family and employer an exserviceman with a severe condition stood an excellentchanceofrecoveryand integration.
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While becoming widowed is associated with a ten-fold increase in the risk of an onset, remaining widowed is associated with an increasedchanceofrecovery.
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Here a doctor lies to his patient with the understanding that divulging the true nature of her tragedy will harm her health and impair herchanceofrecovery.
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Improvement was found to take a long time and was only related to the site of the lesion: anterior lesions have a betterchanceofrecoverythan posterior lesions.
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There are many examples of patients who feel that they have nochanceofrecovery, but for whom society is expending a great deal of resources (3;29).
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In the case of bilingual aphasia, for example, it seems that it is the language used around the time of brain damage that has the highestchanceofrecovery.
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We are told that by cutting away the fat we have a betterchanceofrecovery.
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In that respect, it is important to highlight an earlier point: the sooner someone is treated appropriately, the better is theirchanceofrecovery.
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The whole country is groaning under a burden of taxation so heavy that it is materially diminishing ourchanceofrecovery.
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If they can be given the ease, the smoothness and the shortness of an air passage it will give them a greaterchanceofrecovery.
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But it will be essential for the company and its remaining employees that the business has the best possiblechanceofrecovery.
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Where the former employer had subsequently gone into liquidation, thechanceofrecoverywas virtually nil.
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Widespread and regular preventive checks enable this disease to be detected in its initial stages, which significantly increases thechanceofrecovery.
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I do not see anychanceofrecoveryunder the present régime.
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Thirty per cent of fish stocks are outside safe biological limits, meaning that they have littlechanceofrecovery.
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Very few cases have received a really goodchanceofrecovery.
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The present scheme, which was set up as a war-time man-power measure, applies only to persons to whom treatment offers a fairchanceofrecovery.
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It must be cut down, or this country will be completely destroyed beyond anychanceofrecovery.
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He has no reasonablechanceofrecovery.
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In order to give industry the bestchanceofrecovery, there needed to be a radical reform of the structure of our economy and of our attitudes to work.
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