And the Swede had a chance to equalise within seconds of his arrival, only to head over from Ronaldinho's cross.

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"Conditions within the disk will vary from star to star, and chance, as much as anything else, determined the precise end results for our Earth, " Livio said.

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Humphreys had a chance to get Ulster to within a score of the home side but he was just wide from 45 metres.

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But any chance of an upset was snuffed out within four minutes of the restart as Leeds responded with tries from Webb, to complete his fifth hat-trick for the club, and Brett Delaney.

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Indeed, Warner Marzocchi and Anna Maria Lombardi of the INGV showed that a few hours before the earthquake actually struck modelling would have suggested the chance that a powerful quake would occur within 10 kilometres of L'Aquila within three days rose from one in 200, 000 (the background level) to about one in 1, 000.

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