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
"No. Of course it's only a hundred-to-one chance that we find it, but what we want to consider is which is the most likely place of the few places in which we can look safely."
From The Red House Mystery by A. A. (Alan Alexander) Milne
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 Elinor Glyn
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
