some collocations with "chance" and "get there"

[Annaa]

Hi,
Which alternative is incorrect here?

1. They have every/good/little/no chance of winning.
2. You could easily/well/conceivably predictably get there in under two hours.

Thanks in advance
Anna

[Conchita]

Which one do you think wouldn't fit?

[Annaa]

I don't have a clue about this first one, for me each alternative would be correct, well maybe I would incline towards -little.
In second one -predictably?

[Conchita]

1. They have every/good/little/no chance of winning.

'Good' is the odd one out here -- you would have to say, "They have a good chance of winning".

2. You could easily/well/conceivably/predictably get there in under two hours.

Curiously, all four options seem correct to me.

[Yankee]

I agree with Conchita about the first sentence. All of the options except 'good' are possible. With 'good', you would need to add the word 'a'.

In the second sentence, I'd say 'predictably' is the odd man out. It's not so much that you "cannot" use that word in the sentence -- I just don't think it likely at all. It sounds very odd.
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[Conchita]

[Yankee]

Hi Conchita

I also rolled that one around in my head and just couldn't put my finger on precisely what disturbed me about using 'predictably'. But my feeling is that the oddness is mainly connected with the presence of the conditional 'could' in the sentence.

I agree that you can say As everyone predicted, you were able to get there in under two hours. And there's also nothing odd with I predict you will be able to get there in under two hours. You could also say Predictably, they arrived in under two hours.

So, yes, one way or another, the tense seems to create a problem for using 'predictably' in the original sentence.
What do you think about 'could' as the main problem?

Amy
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[Conchita]