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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Any wise bookmaker would of posted her up in this race as a hundred-to-one shot.
From Ma Pettengill by Wilson, Harry Leon
I'm going to go you, though I think you're plunging on a hundred-to-one shot.
From Cape Cod Stories by Lincoln, Joseph Crosby
It’s a hundred-to-one shot that father will never see his rug again.
From The Pagan Madonna by Koerner, W. H. D. (William Henry Dethlef)