Tadpoles that develop legs early may be eaten by the others, so late developers may have better long-term survival prospects.

At maternal ages 25-29, infants with the best survival prospects were those whose fathers belonged to the same age group as the mothers.

Screening tests might diagnose mesothelioma earlier than conventional methods thus improving the survival prospects for patients.

They do not pass over women, I now know all too well, and early detection can make a huge difference to survival prospects.

Their median survival prospects would otherwise be less than a year.

These changes are silent, meaning that they make no difference to the organism and are almost neutral in terms of its survival prospects.

They reported back that survival prospects were poor.

Although the subsequent pathological tests had suggested complications, there was no evidence to suggest that survival prospects were unreasonable.

The Fleet wanted to determine if any of the three approaches offered better survival prospects than the others.

But the percentage of germination is very low, which was another reason for its poor survival prospects.