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She was initially described in the local media as a long shot and was widely written off.

This is called ballooning and it’s bad for hitting long shots.

As the graph above shows, areas of LA county with the highest poverty rates also have the highest mortality rates—and by a long shot.

On the world’s betting sites, that outcome was a long shot offering two-to-one odds a big payout as recently as two days after Christmas.

In five of the past six seasons, Westbrook scored on less than 30 percent of his long shots.

Gun regulation, of course, was not the only successful initiative, not by a long shot.

It does, and a little-known, long-shot Democrat is taking him to the wire.

For now, neither Warren nor Clinton are campaigning with long-shot Democrats in the Hawkeye State.

In 2012, Bentivolio filed as a long-shot primary candidate to take on idiosyncratic five-term incumbent Thaddeus McCotter.

McCotter, fresh off a long-shot presidential bid, was expected to cruise to victory.

A mile then was a long shot for the largest guns, and the Yankee cruisers had made a fair start.

You have a lot of soreheads to handle, here and at the division shops, and it isn't all their fault, not by a long shot.

Not that he or anybody else can tell me all about you—not by a long shot; I know boys and young men well enough for that.

Gavegan had grumbled to himself that it was only a thousand to one shot; but luck had been with him, and his long shot had won.

The actual limit is when the star has reached the density of a neutron, and this star hasn't collapsed that far by a long shot.