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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

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

From Ma Pettengill by Wilson, Harry Leon

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 Glyn, Elinor

But I protest that not any of the chroniclers do even-handed justice to the little band of patriot riflemen doing their utmost to hold a hundred-to-one outnumbering host in check.

From The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady by Lynde, Francis