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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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
It's a hundred-to-one shot in the first place, and there is Arthur in the second.
From Checkers A Hard-luck Story by Blossom, Henry M.
Everybody," I said, "entertains notions of cleaning up a bundle by having the hundred-to-one shot come in by a length.
From The Big Fix by Bernklau