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ninety-nine times out of a hundred

(also nine times out of ten)

Definition

almost always: Ninety-nine times out of a hundred everything's fine, but now and then there's a problem.Habitual and customary
(Definition of ninety-nine times out of a hundred from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)