31.   If you have many whorls, few loops, patterned palms the chances are you will develop duodenal ulcers.

32.   If you love plants, the chances are you buy them on impulse and then wonder where to put them.

33.   Is it reasonable to be very frightened of a crash when the chances are one in one thousand that it will happen?

34.   Mr Justice Buchanan frowned before asking if there were any chance of a unanimous verdict being reached if he allowed more time.

35.   Now his only chance of life is a new heart.

36.   Our chances of success are virtually zero.

37.   She searched his face for just the slightest hint that there might be the chance of some give in his rigidity.

38.   That fellah who found the gold, well, chances are he was looking for that gold.

39.   The chance of reproducing is high even if the organism is not very efficient.