one in a million
Example Sentences
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“Yeah. I’m aware. It was a one in a million shot. Lucky me.”
From Literature
Even so, he pegs the odds of $2-a-gallon gasoline as a national average at one in a million.
From MarketWatch
Mr. Kerrigan’s faux pas could have been worse: He could have told his daughter that she was “one in a million”—which, in this country, means there are 347 others just like her.
"They are the show, Tess and Claudia," she said "They are the ultimate professionals and they are one in a million, both of them - two in a million rather - and they are diamonds."
From BBC
The U.S. average retail price for regular unleaded gasoline has “extremely low odds — perhaps one in a million — of falling below $2” a gallon this year or next, based on current developments, Patrick De Haan, head of petroleum analysis at GasBuddy, told MarketWatch.
From MarketWatch
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