Sentence examples for fail about from inspiring English sources

The idea was to own up to the reality that marriages fail about half the time.

It is by definition experimental, and its experiments fail about as often they succeed.

It is also admirably tolerant of human frailty: The best hitters, the absolute best, fail about two out of three times.

Two out of every three black marriages fail, about twice the rate of white marriages.The real problem is the behaviour of those few black men who are considered good catches.

His son, Marc, who began working in the kitchen of his father's restaurant in the mid-1970s, toverover as chef a decade ago, although Mr. Haeberlin remained active in the kitchen until his health began to fail about a year ago.

Roughly 80% of all new shows fail; about a third of this year's freshman crop won't even make it past January.

"The current design of schools has been going for about 50 years and it consistently fails about 40% of students," Thomas says.

"My first semester, I failed about three major classes," he told me.

"The Prince George represented everything that was shortsighted and failed about the city's approach to homelessness.

HAVING rebuffed a fine man whose presidency failed, about half the country, I suspect, will have the rueful blues this weekend.

Mr. Steets said today's shutdown occurred automatically when the breaker failed about 10 a.m. and the main generator disconnected.