Sentence examples for a fraction shorter from inspiring English sources

From the dimensions of the new and entirely rebuilt palace at Phaistos, it has been possible to calculate the unit of length used by the Cretan architects: a foot only a fraction shorter than the standard English foot.

Encouragingly, Saladino's winning distance of 8.34m was a fraction shorter than Rutherford's effort two months ago.

But he is still a fraction short for Saturday.

Cook then lifts one a fraction short of Pattinson, running round from deep mid on.

Then Yuvraj flicks a fraction short of Cook at short midwicket, who immediately tells the umpires it didn't carry.

117th over: India 331-3 (Tendulkar 5, Laxman 0) Tendulkar turns Anderson a fraction short of Flintoff of midwicket.

Prior takes Bresnan's throw in front of the stumps and demolishes the stumps with O'Brien a fraction short.

6th over: New Zealand 22-0 (Richardson 12*, Fleming 7*) Harmison finds Fleming's edge, but it drops a fraction short of Thorpe and scoots away for four.

That happened when eBay's fourth-quarter results came in a fraction short of what Wall Street expected.

Last year, Peck's Muscle Hill set a record for the one-mile distance, and his winning margin of six lengths was a fraction short of the record.

At both tables South opened two no‐trump, a fraction short of the point‐count usually re quired for this bid.