The great gamble for a stellar empire had begun.

We knew from the beginning that this was a great gamble, one crapshoot after another.

But producing a single multimedia title can easily cost more than $500,000, making each venture a great gamble.

Our venture was a great gamble, with all minds turned against us.

In the end, he had lost his great gamble.

The greater gamble, he said, would be to keep the existing hospital and try to modernize it.

Allowing the United Nations to run the show would be a gamble too great to take.

It is a grave thing which we must consider now, a great gamble.

Could he do the same again in the greater gamble he proposed?

And finally the great gamble, the game of pachinko the Japanese love so much.