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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

He was never a hundred-to-one shot in that race now that the Mule had regained her head and was running away down mid-channel regardless of obstacles.

From Down the Yellowstone by Freeman, Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome)

Before her very eyes the stone which the builders had rejected had become the main thing, the hundred-to-one shot had walked away with the race.

From The Clicking of Cuthbert by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)

Any wise bookmaker would of posted her up in this race as a hundred-to-one shot.

From Ma Pettengill by Wilson, Harry Leon




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