Voters may have failed to fill out their registration forms completely, by failing to check a box affirming they are citizens, for example.
Is this a space that Russia has failed to fill, or one that can still be inhabited?
Russian writers failed to fill a linguistic vacuum left by several decades of the devaluation of serious language.
Egyptians awoke to the reality of a security vacuum that three decades of lackluster efforts had failed to fill".
RSL's Cole Grossman, Devon Sandoval and Olmes Garcia, backup pressed into service, failed to fill their first-choices' shoes.
Now it's just politically incorrect, especially since Nike, Adidas and Reebok tried and failed to fill the tribal gap.
Boyzone reunited the same year but a recent 19-date tour failed to fill stadiums, despite offers of free tickets.
To me, this is an admirable enterprise, filling gaps that the NHS bureaucrats have failed to fill themselves.
I remember asking him, 'Why me?' " She says Lambert sounded emotional, but failed to fill the gaps.
She didn't vote in the March byelection, having failed to fill in her registration form in time.
Yesterday it emerged that four out of five free schools that opened this year have failed to fill all their places, according to data acquired by Labour.
