But for those supporters in a 24,971 crowd who might have thought they had thrown away their potential advantage, there was almost instant reassurance.

They have the potential advantage of being a left-hander and a right-hander, but neither the alertness nor the alacrity to take advantage of it.

That's another potential advantage of induced cells.

But one potential advantage - the timing of the start of the notionally two-year article 50 process - has been lost.

Amorphous thin-film silicaon was tried as an alternative, but the defects inherent to these materials overwhelmed their potential advantage.