Sentence examples for failed around from inspiring English sources

State news media reported that the line's signal system failed around 2 10 p.m. and that supervisors were directing subway trains by telephone before the accident occurred.

During pressure test the casting failed around 130 bar, while it was designed to sustain a pressure of 160 bar.

Ms. Wong said two scanners had failed around 7 a.m.

In a treatment undertaken after more than ten years of drug therapy had failed, around 100 electrodes were implanted in the woman's brain.

The disruption began after a Consolidated Edison feeder cable in Mount Vernon, N.Y., failed around 5 20 a.m., snarling service between Stamford, Conn., and Grand Central Terminal.

Archeologists have since determined that the Western Settlement failed around the year 1400 and the Eastern Settlement a few decades later.

What is not unclear is that the suddenly vaunted system absolutely failed around the Boston Marathon attack.

Generally speaking, most businesses fail (around 75percentt) before their 10th birthday, regardless of whether they're a startup, a venture capital investment or launched by a company like Intel.