chance vs long shot

chance

noun
  • An opportunity or possibility. 

  • probability; possibility. 

  • The probability of something happening. 

  • Random occurrence; luck. 

verb
  • To try or risk. 

  • To discover something by chance. 

  • To rob, cheat or swindle someone. 

adj
  • Happening by chance, casual. 

long shot

noun
  • Something unlikely; something that has little chance of happening or working. 

  • A master shot, the primary wide shot of a scene into which the closeups will be edited later. 

  • A shot fired at a distant target. 

How often have the words chance and long shot occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )