Sentence examples for wrong by a from inspiring English sources

And wrong by a substantial margin.

"We were wrong by a factor of five".

"I've probably got the sales figures wrong by a factor of 10 or something," he muses.

"Unfortunately, he was wrong, and he was wrong by a country mile.

("If you are wrong by a fraction of a degree, you would burn countries and continents").

The few people following the issue guess the quad maps were wrong by a few dozen feet.

If your teacher is worried you're going through a detrimental phase, well, prove her wrong by getting an A on the next project.

I got it wrong by an hour or so; the train was later than I had thought.

The travel restriction on Snoop Dogg, above, was lifted in 2008 but challenged twice by Britain's Border Agency, whose decision was deemed wrong by an Asylum and Immigration Tribunal.

I would have been wrong, by an order of magnitude.

Food packaging might be deceptive, but when was the last time you were steered wrong by an aphorism?