If you miss the tone by a fraction, it does not work.

We may have missed by a fraction of a nanosecond.

I saw the first straight left coming from a mile off and allowed it to miss the side of my head by a fraction.

The hook missed the guard's face by a fraction of an inch.

What must have been a foot missed his face by a fraction of an inch.

The beam missed her by a fraction of an inch!

She missed the jugular by a fraction of an inch.

But the first bullet missed her by a fraction.

The bullet missed his heart by only a fraction of an inch.

The first missed by a fraction of an inch.