It was a statistical likelihood approaching certainty that some of them had been involved in an "incidental casualty" report.
Give it long enough and the probability of a comet hitting us approaches certainty.
Indeed, he could not have rested until something approaching certainty had once more taken possession of his soul.
But it would take a post mortem before we could even approach certainty.
His solitude cannot be established with anything approaching certainty.
When you reach old age - say 70 and up - it approaches certainty that you will be in some way handicapped.
Science works by approximation as much as it does deductively, with the hope of approaching certainty, nothing more.
Man, the probability that we will win there, if we haven't already, approaches certainty.
It is more than a presumption; it approaches certainty.
It is probable, approaching certainty, that these events will wipe out our time machine.
