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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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)
Movements of any kind would be sure to discover them to the enemy lookout, but lacking that movement it is a hundred-to-one shot they will be undetected.
From The Emma Gees by McBride, Herbert Wes
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.