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
Clary, like defendants in other crack cases, challenged the constitutionality of the hundred-to-one ratio.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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 Francis Perry Elliott
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 Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome) Freeman
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 P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
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