If he misses, well, it was a long shot anyway.

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It was a long shot.

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It was a long-shot idea, easily fifteen years from reality, if it became a reality at all.

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"I'd hoped to make it through to the final 10 but it was a bit of a long shot, " the 37-year-old told BBC Sport.

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Assuming that the figure was similar during the Cretaceous, it would be a long shot that the first fossil meteorite to turn up from 65m years ago was made of such a rock unless a huge extra supply of carbonaceous chondrite had suddenly arrived on the planet.

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Delap's long-range shot tested Robert Green but it was a rare second half attack for the visitors.

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Villa substitute Thomas Hitzlsperger forced Taylor in action with a long-range strike late on - it was Villa's first shot on target of the afternoon.

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At 4:30 of the third period, Streit took a shot from long range that Fleury was tracking until it bounced off the left skate of Pittsburgh defenseman Douglas Murray and went in.

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Not long after, Benitez engineered space in the box for a shot from 12 yards but it was saved by the arm of Gordon, who also picked himself up in time to palm away Carr's follow-up effort.

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