It's a virtual certainty that you'll stumble across something interesting along the way.

But such were the circumstances of the times that negative reactions could be expected as a virtual certainty too.

She had been considered a virtual certainty to head the agency.

It is a virtual certainty the cops didn't find the gun the day they searched the house.

Still, the three would eventually be caught and convicted; that was a virtual certainty.

And when finally he stood only a few feet away from the toiling men, it became a virtual certainty.

The league's owners will vote on the matter in March, but approval appeared a virtual certainty.

If they could hold out just another few years at an accelerated pace, they'd be strong enough to make their victory a virtual certainty.

It's a virtual certainty that they have some idea what the hell's going on.

Thus, in this country infection means a virtual certainty of death.