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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

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

He plays a hundred-to-one shot like he was puttin' money on a favorite.

From Wilt Thou Torchy by Ford, Sewell

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)




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