Sentence examples for fractionally earlier from inspiring English sources
Nothing major, but disciplinary rules have been tweaked - for example, deliberately kicking out a skate to cross the finish line fractionally earlier would now lead to disqualification.
On the brakes into the final corner of race one, Davies dived into the lead but Rea turned tighter and got on the power fractionally earlier, giving him the smallest advantage which he carried over the line for another maximum points score.
Shares closed down fractionally today, to 77.45 euros ($71.28).
Stock market measures that are broader than the Dow were up fractionally yesterday.
Although the overall budget for social care in England rose fractionally last year from £13.65bn to £13.82bn, it was outstripped by the cost of demographic changes that have seen the number of people needing help grow, and the £600m cost of introducing the "national living wage".
The euro zone will expand fractionally in 2013, after contracting this year, and China will benefit from easier monetary conditions, stronger loan growth and faster project approvals.
The disgusting-looking coin below is worth fractionally more today than it was 1,800 years ago, when you would have needed a wheelbarrow-full to pay a legionnaire's monthly wages.
At least 26,228 have reached Italy since the start of 2015, fractionally down on last year's equivalent level.
INM's share price, which is quoted on the Irish Stock Exchange, was down fractionally at 12.30pm today after the Media Week report went online at €0.245, a 2% fall on last night's close.
However, the number of people claiming Jobseeker's Allowance in November fell fractionally, by 1,200 to 1.46 million, the ONS said.
Even in an alternative world where there is a concerted, coordinated effort to reduce future carbon emissions sharply, the International Energy Agency projected oil demand would peak at 88 million barrels a day around 2020, then decline to 81 million barrels a day in 2035 — just fractionally less than today's consumption.
