This doctrine leading them to believe after black came up the twentieth time that there was not a chance in a million of another repeat.

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According to the National Weather Service, your chance of being hit by lightning this year is a mere 1 in 1 million.

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In developing countries, around 200 million young people need a second chance to acquire the basic literacy and numeracy skills, which are essential to learning further skills for work.

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It is time of remarkable brain development, but also an extremely vulnerable time for young children, especially in the developing world, where a child has a four in ten chance of living in extreme poverty and 10.5 million children under age of 5 die from preventable diseases every year.

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The merely moderately wealthy with a million dollars to throw around still have a chance to score digs in the ritzy vacation village.

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According to data from the International Air Transport Association, the chance of a commercial Western-built aircraft having an accident last year was one in three million.

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The social network, which has attracted over 150 million children since it launched in October 2005, offers children the chance to become a penguin, "waddle around" and decorate an igloo.

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The testing concluded there was no chance that short-circuiting would lead to a fire, and the odds of a smoking battery were one in every 10 million flight hours.

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No matter how it began, today the 189sqm of mosaic grotto is a chance to gawp at the 4.6 million cockle, mussel, oyster and whelk shells festooned in elaborate mosaics covering every surface.

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