Sentence examples for fractionally behind from inspiring English sources

Victory means SAB is now only fractionally behind InBev as the world's biggest producer of beer by volume.

A grandson, C. Calloway Brooks, explains the unusual Calloway practice of having the bass play slightly ahead of the beat, with the drums staying fractionally behind.

Yet the rhapsodic quality of his playing also led to moments of imprecise coordination, with Tetzlaff sometimes rushing Adès's beat, occasionally falling fractionally behind it.

Dawkins was involved again, getting to the byline once more, but his cutback was fractionally behind Bryson and the midfielder lifted his effort over the crossbar from just four yards out.

But on Wednesday he scooped first prize at the elite Kings event in Romania, and is now only fractionally behind Vlad Kramnik, the established No3, who dropped points in the Russian championship.

The Romanian finished with 88.825 points overall, fractionally behind Boy's 88.875.

Its very sound, with those winsome melodies, those West Coast harmonies, and that rhythm section lagging fractionally, imperceptibly behind the beat conjures a fantasy world of luxurious, liberal excess and Californication, captured with sleek perfection.

Joe Root edged a delivery fractionally short of De Kock behind the stumps as the occasional ball misbehaved but England's two leading batsmen put on 60 to take them to the close without further loss.

So, to compensate for my small stature, I sit up tall behind the wheel to be fractionally more in command, as I allow the Spirit of Ecstasy mascot in my direct view to guide me.

Platt was fractionally onside and Gascoigne fractionally off.

And they pedal fractionally faster.