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
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
"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 Milne, A. A. (Alan Alexander)
But the chance, the hundred-to-one chance, of turning him into an ordinary human being—loving, suffering, understanding—was lost.
From The Ffolliots of Redmarley by Harker, L. Allen (Lizzie Allen)
