The phrase "a sudden breakdown" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an unexpected failure or collapse, often in the context of machinery, systems, or even emotional states.
Example: "After weeks of stress, she experienced a sudden breakdown during the meeting."
Alternatives: "an unexpected failure" or "a rapid collapse."
What has pushed them this far is a combination of severe economic and social strains in the North, including serious famine and energy shortages, and a new recognition by the South that its own security would be endangered by a sudden breakdown of authority in North Korea.
Its thermal inertia prevents a sudden breakdown.
The Rand Corporation report says that China is likely to intervene militarily in North Korea in the event of a sudden breakdown of government there.
The current increases with the increasing of bias and reaches a maximum current of approximately 1.8 mA at a bias of approximately 2 V, while a sudden breakdown of the current occurs once bias is >2 V.
The original discrete formulation by Palmer [10] considers a sudden breakdown of ergodicity where transitions between metabasins are strictly forbidden.
Adaptation to resistance in this case is expected to result in a gradual erosion of the resistance efficacy, rather than a sudden breakdown (McDonald and Linde 2002; Mundt et al. 2002; for an illustration).
An economic crisis, a death in the family, a sudden breakup and an even more sudden breakdown were all it took to go from a six-figure income to sleeping rough in the space of a year.
For example, the sudden breakdown of a water-feeding pump can result in serious damage of the corresponding boiler in a power plant.
The movie has a keen, bitter sense of the sudden breakdown of preposterous illusions.
"The crisis in Greece stemmed from a sudden financial breakdown due to risky lending, which then spilled over to, and exacerbated, sovereign debt tensions".
After a sudden Brooklyn breakdown — a freakout of vulnerability on the ambiguous edge of art and abuse — Sarah (Sarah Small), a young performance artist, heads to a rustic California "Balkan camp," along with her friend Isolde (Isolde Chae-Lawrence), to study folk music and dance.
