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what does the phrase

a matter of chance mean?

Give me an example of this phrase
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Chance = a possibility of something happening

Matter (in this context) = a question of.

So it is a question of the possibility of something happening.

It was a matter of chance that I found this forum.

That the car tyre burst was a matter of chance
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