hundred-to-one
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Each X signifies that the active substance has undergone a ten-to-one dilution, each C a hundred-to-one dilution.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Clary, like defendants in other crack cases, challenged the constitutionality of the hundred-to-one ratio.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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I don't know how a man could prove himself more worthy of any woman than by taking his life in his hands on a hundred-to-one chance of saving hers!
From The Fifth Ace by Gage, George W.
He plays a hundred-to-one shot like he was puttin' money on a favorite.
From Wilt Thou Torchy by Ford, Sewell
It's a hundred-to-one shot in the first place, and there is Arthur in the second.
From Checkers A Hard-luck Story by Blossom, Henry M.