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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

Clary, like defendants in other crack cases, challenged the constitutionality of the hundred-to-one ratio.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

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.

If he cannot answer these questions satisfactorily he may know that he is undertaking a hundred-to-one chance of peace and happiness.

From Three Things by Glyn, Elinor

Don't know what they are," he whispered to me, "but I'll take a hundred-to-one shot on anything he says.

From The Haunted Pajamas by Elliott, Francis Perry




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