run the chance

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Fog, strong summer winds, the churning currents of the English Channel, make it far more risky than crossing the Atlantic, where at least yachts do not run the chance of going aground.

From Time Magazine Archive

I am not a man, Miss Tressillian, to run the chance of another repulse.

From Beatrice Boville and Other Stories by Ouida

If these fiends," he exclaimed,—the triumph of Oconostota had gone very hard with him,—"were like any other enemy we could afford to run the chance.

From The Story of Old Fort Loudon by Murfree, Mary Noailles

And perhaps if all matrimonial bargains were to be again distributed, it would be better for you to keep what you have than to run the chance of getting worse.

From How to be Happy Though Married Being a Handbook to Marriage by Hardy, Edward John

Dramatists like to depend on the programs for such information, but they run the chance that many auditors will not see the printed note.

From Dramatic Technique by Baker, George Pierce