Timeline for Can we use "off-chance" in a scientific paper?

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Dec 21, 2012 at 17:40	vote	accept	A.Gh
Dec 21, 2012 at 17:30	comment	added	StoneyB on hiatus		Correction: required, or elliptically implied. "You're unlikely to succeed." "Yes, well, I'm doing it on the off chance."
Dec 21, 2012 at 17:23	comment	added	StoneyB on hiatus		+1 You might add that a Y is required, which is what OP's attempt misses. In your first examples, where the phrase means something like "with the unlikely hope", Y may also be a prepositional phrase headed by of: "on the off chance of seeing Mira", "on the off chance of success/succeding". I'd regard the second use, "in the unlikely event", as a mis-use, but I'm an old fart and history is trending away from me.
Dec 21, 2012 at 17:21	comment	added	Cerberus - Reinstate Monica		+1 By the way, it's great that you don't use unnecessary abbreviations. Makes your answers so much more readable than some linguistic treatises that would otherwise be perfectly clear.
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