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
Don't know what they are," he whispered to me, "but I'll take a hundred-to-one shot on anything he says.
From The Haunted Pajamas by Elliott, Francis Perry
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
"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)
