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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He was never a hundred-to-one shot in that race now that the Mule had regained her head and was running away down mid-channel regardless of obstacles.
From Down the Yellowstone by Freeman, Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome)
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)
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