The phrase "a failure in this" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate a lack of success or an error related to a specific situation or task.
Example: "The project was deemed a failure in this aspect, leading to a reevaluation of our strategy."
Alternatives: "a shortcoming in this" or "a mistake in this".
(A failure in this folding mechanism may be what trapped the men: NBC is reporting that the motor suffered a power failure).
Though "Monsieur Verdoux" was a failure in this country, it won several prizes elsewhere, including the Danish equivalent of an Oscar.
Christian Gross is looked on as a bit of a failure in this country, on account of the unsuccessful succession of nanoseconds he was gifted to ply his trade at Tottenham Hotspur.
If young men are considered successful on the condition they succeed in achieving masculinity in the ways we have so far defined it, it would be a great achievement to be a failure in this regard.
Unfortunately, Wallace declared his most overtly philosophical novel — his first, "The Broom of the System" (1987), which incorporates the ideas of Ludwig Wittgenstein — to be a failure in this respect.
A failure in this series would not negate that achievement, but it would revive tired tropes about James's stature in the game, and he seemed to be bracing for the backlash already.
The report said this revealed a failure in the strength of the law.
As the chair Margaret Hodge noted, this was a failure in the stewardship of public money, as well as a misunderstanding of public service.
There will be some who see a failure in the fact a player of this sui generis class with the bat has played 24 Test matches aged 28, compared to 232 career T20s from Chittagong to Sydney to Somerset.
Furthermore, a failure in the microtubule directed transport of this protein complex would be an attractive mechanism underlying the pathogenesis of OS in patients with B-box1 mutations.
"It is, of course, a failure in that this has happened.
