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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I'm going to go you, though I think you're plunging on a hundred-to-one shot.
From Cape Cod Stories by Lincoln, Joseph Crosby
It’s a hundred-to-one shot that father will never see his rug again.
From The Pagan Madonna by Koerner, W. H. D. (William Henry Dethlef)
Any wise bookmaker would of posted her up in this race as a hundred-to-one shot.
From Ma Pettengill by Wilson, Harry Leon