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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Everybody," I said, "entertains notions of cleaning up a bundle by having the hundred-to-one shot come in by a length.
From The Big Fix by Bernklau
I, who had taken up writing as a last resort, a gamble which might, on a hundred-to-one chance, win where everything else had failed, had now reached the point where that had failed, too.
From Kent Knowles: Quahaug by Joseph Crosby Lincoln
It’s a hundred-to-one shot that father will never see his rug again.
From The Pagan Madonna by W. H. D. (William Henry Dethlef) Koerner
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