1.   Although it contains a certain amount of truth, this theory ultimately misses the mark.

2.   Their efforts to improve quality have somewhat missed the mark.

3.   Another difficulty in throwing water on the animals is that the water often misses its mark.

4.   As a matter of nonfact, about one in five gags is laugh-out-loud funny, and only one in ten misses the mark.

5.   Barnes notes that his firm missed the mark on CyCare, declaring it fairly valued about six months ago and missing a big part of the run-up.

6.   Benitez does not often miss his mark in games, either.

7.   Bradlees, another troubled discounter, may have missed the mark on this point.

8.   A diagnosis misses the mark.

9.   A clever idea that, all the same, somewhat misses the mark.

10.   Across the Valley on Wednesday, men and women shopped for last-minute love tokens, sure that if they missed their mark, all would be lost.