Sentence examples for copies failed from inspiring English sources

The researchers fabricated artificial replicas of bean leaves that had synthetic "hairs" with tips just as sharp as the real thing, but the copies failed to capture any bugs, perhaps because the "stalks" of the simulated plant hairs differ from the genuine article.

However, a second transgene with a lower copy number (smIs199, 2 3 copies) failed to do so.

Moreover, in case the two chromosome copies fail to separate properly as cells divide, the older centrosome is more likely to receive both chromosome copies at the expense of the other centrosome.

While replication is a measure to enhance data availability, since if one copy fails another might still be available, partitioning turns out to be the key to tackling many large data problems algorithmically.

While it has gone platinum after selling in excess of 300,000 copies, it failed to emulate the success of Jackson's previous albums.

Whatever the musical value of Speech Debelle's Speech Therapy, it's difficult to see how the 2009 Mercurys could have more thoroughly discouraged potential buyers from visiting record shops without sending the judging panel out to squirt superglue through their locks: Speech Therapy sold 10,000 copies and failed to make the top 40.

It sold a modest 59,000 copies, but failed to reach the Top 10. Miller states that "by the end of the year, The Kinks were rapidly sliding out of fashion".

The tremendous pseudogenes, presenting for the copies that failed to gain new function, also gave an evidence for the numerous duplications of actin genes.

I tried to get an advance copy and failed.

One of the pieces of copy I failed to submit was a detailed entry for my class report.

But you can't get that anywhere – at £600, it is sold out at 458 online retailers, the aggregator sites inform me – and the inevitable high street copy had failed to materialise by the time we took this photo.