Mr. Kaufman, who is also directing the play, is somewhat improbable himself, as he is the first to admit.

The way the biographer tells it, it started many years ago, in a somewhat improbable place - a schoolyard in Hankow, China, during the 1920's.

A somewhat improbable but illustrative example that shows the fallibility of the standard deviation formula is a series of equal active returns.

All this is not impossible," he decided ponderously, "but it appears to me somewhat improbable.

"That sounds somewhat improbable, but still seems a point possible of argument," said Elmanus weightily.

XXXVI A Somewhat Improbable Story I cannot remember whether this tale is true or not.

Thaksin energetically supported his former foreign minister Surakiart Sathirathai's somewhat improbable campaign to become UN Secretary General.

However, the flip side, "One by One," has a running time of 6:01, which makes the rumor somewhat improbable due to the five-minute 20-second time capacity of 45 rpm recordings.

But an emerging technology known as broadband over power lines, or B.P.L., may soon offer a third wire into homes, channeling high-speed data through a somewhat improbable conduit: an ordinary electrical outlet.

For long periods, this somewhat improbable lake is so safe and tranquil that visitors can come right to the edge of the crater, without the least hazard.