"fail to afford" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It means to not have enough money or resources to pay for something or to be unable to do something due to financial limitations. Example: The Jones family had to cancel their vacation plans because they failed to afford the expensive hotel fees.
The Hundlings watch, they say, as the biggest farmers secure more and more land, the youngest ones, like themselves, fail to afford any, and the locals go on fretting that everyone has moved away.
It is also true that many countries fail to afford the costly measurement equipments and techniques involved for measuring solar radiation.
Despite being aware of the benefits of hiring an accountant, most small businesses fail to afford one.
The report is flawed because the inspector failed to give proper consideration to material available to him and failed to afford the commission and commission officers procedural fairness".
Florence is beautiful but 21st-century Tuscany failed to afford me the sensual awakening that altered the course of Lucy Honeychurch's life.
The company said: "Chevron has appealed because the judgment was procured by fraud and because the Ecuadorian judicial system failed to afford an impartial tribunal and due process.
This social Darwinism not only fails to afford protection to those less equipped to flourish in the jungle -- those "hypersensitive maladaptive no-commercial-potential individuals" -- but in Ms. Borsook's opinion also fails to ensure the triumph of the best.
The claim was in a lawsuit by another company, Clear Channel Entertainment, which argued that the city had failed to "afford others the opportunity to submit competitive proposals" for what had become a "new project".
Though the measure was easily adopted on a 78-to-19 78-to-19 78-to-19Democrats called it unfair because it failed to afford the same financial benefits to some smaller union pension funds.
Following are excerpts from a motion filed yesterday by Microsoft for a stay of the judgment against it in a federal antitrust suit: Microsoft's stay motion has been pending for nearly a week, and the district court has "failed to afford the relief requested" by the motion.
Unlike BALB/c mice, however, these responses failed to afford any protection against virulent challenge in C3H/HeJ mice.
