Taken as a whole these results represent considerable progress since Britain failed to qualify for the Athens Olympics in 2004, but the squad's frustration at failing to break the bronze-medal barrier has been growing.
By 1988, they had been dropped from EMI after failing to break into the US.
For Bangladesh, it was an all too familiar story of stretching England but failing to break them.
After failing to break into the Roma team, he was sold to Fiorentina in 2010 but never lived up to expectations.
Callede says they knew there were many talented designers who were failing to break into a market dominated by a handful of major retailers.
Nelson Mandela's wife, Graça Machel, above, accused southern African leaders on Wednesday of bearing responsibility for Zimbabwe's humanitarian crisis by failing to break the deadlock.
Caster Semenya finished a slow second to the defending Olympic champion Pamela Jelimo, failing to break 2min to the Kenyan's world leading time of 1minute 58.49sec.
This year alone, Love already has five top 10 finishes, but he has stumbled in key situations, failing to break 70 on Sunday during his last five tournaments.
BBC Radio 1 has come under fire from its biggest commercial rival for playing too many Top 30 hits and failing to break enough new acts.
New Zealand looked worryingly fatigued as the second half wore on, their inexperienced half-back pairing of Tuimoala Lolohea and Peta Hiku failing to break down England's resolve.
Defoe's absence was keenly felt against Albion when Emmanuel Adebayor and Roberto Soldado were failing to break through a three-man central defence, and the full-backs, Walker and Danny Rose, were the best players.
