However, if you do anything long enough, it is a virtual certainty that the unexpected is sure to occur.

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"We proved his guilt to a virtual certainty, " he said.

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At the moment of this writing, with 100% of the precincts voted, JoAnne Kloppenburg appears to have pulled out the victory by just 200 of the 1.5 million votes cast suggesting that a recount is a virtual certainty.

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Indeed, it is a virtual certainty that the Supreme Court will be called upon to interpret a statute long after many of the legislators who supported or opposed its passage have died, retired, or been voted out of office.

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Improvements are a virtual certainty.

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"Building a virtual engine is the only route of certainty to see the engine built in our lifetimes, " he said.

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