So just who would be England's four first-choice seamers given the remarkable improbability that they were all fit?

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Firstly, there's the basic improbability of seeing devices laid out like this, in what is supposed to be a congressman's office.

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The improbability of this misfit coalition becomes the movie's most rewarding asset.

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That being said, some folks do snatch a jackpot from the jaws of improbability, one of them being Geneva, Illinois, resident Ricardo Cereza.

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It said Stafford was "not an event of such rarity or improbability that it would be safe to assume that it has not been and will not be repeated".

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How can we reconcile these two opposite thoughts: the impossibility of an association based on the physics of trajectories, and the improbability of coincidence (lack of association) that the math suggests?

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In 2002 that prospect still remains a distant improbability.

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Mr Francis said the scandal, in which at least 400 patients may have died unnecessarily, was not an event of "such rarity or improbability that it would be safe to assume that it will not be repeated".

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For this D-Day anniversary, standing shoulder to shoulder with the stumbling Gordon Brown, he spoke of "the sheer improbability of this victory, " in which American, British and Canadian forces won a beachhead in 1944 on the French coast.

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