No matter the challenger and no matter how good their title odds were given their expenditures on players, Ferguson and United have found ways to win titles more frequently than any other club.

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The odds of him becoming president, or even his party's nominee, were never very good to begin with.

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If Iraq were to fall out of the sky onto a random part of the earth, odds are good that it would plunk into the ocean, sink for at least two miles and then settle into a seemingly endless mudflat called the abyssal plain.

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