reasonable chance

collocation in English

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reasonable
adjective
uk
/ˈriː.zən.ə.bəl/us
/ˈriː.zən.ə.bəl/
based on or using good judgment and therefore fair ...
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chance
noun
uk
/tʃɑːns/us
/tʃæns/
an occasion that allows something to ...
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(Definition ofreasonableandchancefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Therefore, the double mutant stands areasonablechanceof rising to high frequency by random drift.
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While contestants at one time stood areasonablechanceof winning an election contest, this is no longer true in the modern period.
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Accordingly, the study period may have been too short to give the pain advisers areasonablechanceto improve the documentation to any great extent.
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Those working in the field need to know that a proposed strategy or technology has areasonablechance of improving health without undue risk or other serious problems.
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A protocol must guarantee that there is areasonablechancethat a leader is elected among the set of honest players, regardless of the behaviour of the dishonest players.
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To test the noninferiority hypothesis, a statistical power analysis has to be performed to determine the sample size needed to give this hypothesis areasonablechanceof being proven correct.
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User involvement is more likely to be successful in exerting influence if it has areasonablechanceof succeeding.
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No one who has read it could ever again believe that policies of offering a tenancy and a few months support will have anyreasonablechanceof success.
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The sole question was whether there was areasonablechanceof completing those negotiations with an acceptable agreement or not.
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The bigger outfits might want to compete, but they will only do so if there is areasonablechanceof making a fair profit.
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It will invest only if there is areasonablechanceof operation.
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The coal miner could go to another colliery and have areasonablechanceof being employed.
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One is aimed at scuttling the prospect of devolution after one year and the other provides areasonablechance.
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There is areasonablechancethat he was unaware of it.
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Also, in what spirit must these programmes be undertaken if they are to have areasonablechanceof success?
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I think there is quite areasonablechanceunder the currency reforms that, provided the other things go well, money will retain its value.
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Why not modify the time tables so that there is areasonablechancethat all the trains arrive on time?
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If we can achieve agreement on the economic principles, however, these other points have areasonablechanceof settlement.
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No less than 15,000,000 people have not had areasonablechanceof getting to know what these proposals arc going to cost them.
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He must, therefore, at all costs work under conditions where he has areasonablechanceof achieving that ambition.
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