Sentence examples for had recently failed from inspiring English sources

"There's an awful lot of pampas grass in Luton," she observed of the town which had recently failed to elect her as MP.

Workshops of "Superbia," the futuristic rock musical he had spent five years writing, had recently failed to attract backers for a full production.

England, for context, had recently failed to qualify for Euro 84 and were about to thoroughly underwhelm in the final Home Championships.

The city's taxi commissioner, David Yassky, who was also at the news conference, said that his sister had recently failed three times to hail a cab in the rain while walking with her 7-month-old in Park Slope, Brooklyn.

Sarah Elliott QC, representing Black, told the court that at the time the county's children's services department had recently failed an Ofsted inspection, being ranked "inadequate" in all areas.

Mr. Gunn said that service between New York and Boston was halted for 24 hours last week because aging overhead power lines fell and that two electric engines had recently failed, all because of deferred maintenance.

Partly because of that, Britain has recently failed to get the best deal for itself in Brussels.

It would be consistent with his style to take a proactive role and remove those whose behaviour has recently failed to impress him.

BP has recently failed in its bid to stop what it deemed to be unfair compensation payments being handed out by a scheme it set up.

The party has recently pointed out that thousands of nursing and other frontline jobs have been cut since the election, while one in six hospitals in England have recently failed inspections on the grounds of inadequate staff numbers.

Bid after bid in Turkey's ambitious privatisation programme has recently failed because financing could not be put together.Despite the efforts of regulators and multilateral finance institutions, there has been an inevitable cutback of bank exposures to the region.