chance of survival

collocation in English

meaningsofchanceandsurvival

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chance
adjective[before noun]
uk
/tʃɑːns/
us
/tʃæns/
happening in a way that is not planned or does not have any known cause ...
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survival
noun
uk
/səˈvaɪ.vəl/
us
/sɚˈvaɪ.vəl/
the fact of a person, organization, etc. continuing to live ...
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(Definition ofchanceandsurvivalfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofchance of survival

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If there is no special obligation, you should give each person the highest equalchanceofsurvival.
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In biology, "niche construction" is the process in which an organism alters its environment in order to increase itschanceofsurvival.
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The earlier studies also had few very premature babies because of their poorchanceofsurvivalin the early years of the twentieth century.
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Assume that payoffs are simply thechanceofsurvivaland that the total payoff is calculated as the sum of these probabilities.
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Particular drugs are associated with later problems, which can be relevant to adjuvant treatment, wherechanceofsurvivalafter treatment may be significant.
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All research embryos will die, and none have achanceofsurvival.
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There, due to the snow cover, eggs close to the ground have a higherchanceofsurvivalthan eggs high above the snow.
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Little wonder that the sailors again tried to correlate her behaviour with theirchanceofsurvival.
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This allows an immediate recall and avoidance of the situation in the future, which enhances thechanceofsurvivalon the evolutionary level.
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The data presented here would predict over an 80%chanceofsurvivalfor an infant this size and gestation.
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Furthermore, every simple extension to such an idea must be seen as an added value that increases thechanceofsurvival.
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If each person has a 1/3chanceofsurvival, there remains a 1/3 chance that nobody survives.
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This would give the child the bestchanceofsurvival.
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For each of three health states considered in the study, a substantial number of respondents refused to trade thechanceofsurvivalfor a possible improvement in the health state.
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What then is the population level which must be set to ensure thechanceofsurvivalfor all, and what measures of control must be instituted?
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She could reasonably argue that her improvedchanceofsurvival(from 50 percent to 100 percent) should have had at least some impact on the decision-making procedure.
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This is not a terribly good example from his point of view, because such an act involves a decentchanceofsurvivalfollowed by a substantial reward.
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It was decided to delay the procedure to 32 weeks gestation so that, if premature labour were induced, the two normal triplets would have a goodchanceofsurvival.
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In some cases loans have been linked to advisory services in recognition of the fact that firms that obtain advice from consultants have a much higherchanceofsurvival.
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