1.   And since finesse requires a little thought and concentration, the odds can really go against you.

2.   By the time the race is run, his odds probably will go higher.

3.   In fact, our research shows that the odds of success go way up if managers look for people who have already demonstrated success in a full-time position.

4.   The odds are going to be with us, hopefully, later in the season.

5.   Those odds go up when dogs bred to guard or fight are owned by boneheads who think that canine aggression is really nifty.

6.   With each cell division in an aging man, the odds go up for a mutation occurring in the genes that cause schizophrenia, Crow said.