a fifty-fifty chance
aresultisequallylikelytohappenor nothappen:
There’s only afifty-fiftychancethat she’llsurvivetheoperation.
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After all, if a weighing machine is faulty there isafifty-fiftychancethat it will be faulty in the customer's favour.
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If they are 45 or over, they haveafifty-fiftychanceof being out of work for at least a year.
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There isafifty-fiftychancethat it may yet take mankind over the precipice.
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When they are caught and fight the case in court by pleading not guilty, there isafifty-fiftychanceof acquittal.
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I believe that with them he might believe that he hadafifty-fiftychanceof being absolved.
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A criminal who commits a robbery hasafifty-fiftychanceof being discovered and convicted.
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There is onlyafifty-fiftychanceof getting over the food problem.
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I think that the company hasafifty-fiftychanceof success.
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The child of an affected parent will haveafifty-fiftychanceand many parents will conceive before diagnosis.
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Thus, as late entrants, we have in my view no more thanafifty-fiftychanceof success.
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The disease is a dominantly inherited genetic disorder, which means that each child of an affected parent will haveafifty-fiftychanceof inheriting the disease.
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Thus, each time, the price hadafifty-fiftychanceof closing higher or lower than the previous day.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Aged 18, following a knee injury he had a cartilage removed and was given onlyafifty-fiftychanceof resuming his playing career.
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