likelihood of marriage

Every time there was any likelihood of marriage--a threatening letter arrived.

With the likelihood of marriage for women diminishing, more and more women became fixated on the institution itself.

The underlying assumption was that the likelihood of marriage between people from different villages drops off with increase in geographical distance between the villages.

In interviews, the three said they did not know whether they were correct three years ago when they reported that college-educated white women had a 20 percent likelihood of marriage at the age of 30, a 5 percent chance at 35 and a 1 percent chance at 40.