11.   A more remote possibility is that such a misunderstanding could trigger a gun battle between competing informants and even involve undercover officers.

12.   A late-season collapse did not seem like a remote possibility after the way the Knicks came out on Sunday night.

13.   A remote possibility, certainly, but then so much of what has happened so far in this case seemed highly improbable until it happened.

14.   A spokesman for the Agriculture Department stressed Wednesday that there was only a remote possibility that the infection would pass to humans from beef bones.

15.   But for now those moves remain a remote possibility.

16.   But in this unpredictable year, that seems the most remote possibility of all.

17.   But that also seems an extremely remote possibility.

18.   But when gold is not a remote possibility, second-best looks fine.

19.   Dossett said surgery was a remote possibility.

20.   Dismissal, by contrast, offers the extremely remote possibility that a student can be readmitted if there is new exonorating evidence and the entire faculty readmits.