The phrase "a sequence of failed" is not correct as it is incomplete and lacks a noun to clarify what has failed.
You can use it in contexts where you are describing a series of failures, but it needs to be completed for clarity.
Example: "The project was marked by a sequence of failed attempts to secure funding."
Alternatives: "a series of failures" or "a chain of unsuccessful attempts."
Mr. Hague's arrival as a credible Conservative leader follows a sequence of failed "relaunches," fresh starts and new initiatives.
As the untutored folkteller of "Wessex", Hardy narrates Jude's tragedy inside-out through a sequence of failed relationships – with Arabella, his wife; with Sue Bridehead, his cousin and true love; and even with himself.
Questions about the ongoing reliance in the UK public sector on vulnerable legacy systems need to be asked — not least given a sequence of failed centralized government IT projects, including for health and border control.
One antelope bone records a sequence of failed hammerstone blows, which scratched the bone slightly and caused bone flakes to fly off.
Questions about the ongoing reliance in the UK public sector on vulnerable legacy systems need to be asked — not least given a sequence of failed centralized government IT projects, including for health and border control.
In seven days, one after another, two multibillion-dollar corporations and the White House press secretary were ridiculed for unrelated embarrassments — a sequence of fail so rapid that no single meme could reach peak creativity before the next one interrupted.
After an early sequence of failed missions, in 1967 Soviet scientists launched Venera 4, comprising a flyby spacecraft as well as a probe that entered the planet's atmosphere.
Table 1 lists the total number of sequences, number of failed sequences, number of sequences submitted to GenBank and number of sequences used in the clustering from each of the 23 libraries.
AF447 was lost after a sequence of events in which sensors failed, causing the autopilot to be disabled, and changing the aircraft's control system to a mode that left pilot and co-pilot hopelessly confused, as chillingly captured by the flight recorders: "We completely lost control of the airplane, and we don't understand anything!
For example, expert radiologists scanning through a sequence of x-ray images often failed to notice the superimposition of a small image of a gorilla on the radiograph (Drew, Võ, & Wolfe, 2013).
In a Markov chain model of a wireless cellular network, one commonly used expression for calculating the handoff arrival rate can lead to a sequence of oscillating iterative values that fail to converge.
