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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

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.

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)

I, who had taken up writing as a last resort, a gamble which might, on a hundred-to-one chance, win where everything else had failed, had now reached the point where that had failed, too.

From Kent Knowles: Quahaug by Lincoln, Joseph Crosby




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