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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

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)

If he cannot answer these questions satisfactorily he may know that he is undertaking a hundred-to-one chance of peace and happiness.

From Three Things by Glyn, Elinor

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)




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