"impending breakdown" is a grammatically correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is often used to describe a situation or event that is expected to happen soon and may involve a major failure or collapse. Example: "The engineers were working frantically to prevent the impending breakdown of the bridge, which could result in disastrous consequences for the town."
Small wireless sensors monitoring equipment in large factories can provide early warning of impending breakdown.
But before long it becomes evident that the beaver may not be enough to dam the impending breakdown.
For example, a factory technician could film a machine to check for small movements in bolts that might indicate an impending breakdown.
You barely notice the process, but Simon's equable observations gradually reveal a murder by sushi knife, and a fanged critique of the impending breakdown of civilisation.
As he writes of his own impending breakdown, Powers deftly revisits the past through the lens and logic of traumatized children.
Arctor's impending breakdown is accelerated when he is ordered to spy on his druggie friends: the babbling, hyper-active Barris (Robert Downey Jr), slacker Ernie (Woody Harrelson), unhappy Freck (Rory Cochrane) and the beautiful cokehead Donna (Winona Ryder) with whom, in his dopey way, he is in love.
Seventy percent said they felt themselves to be at risk of "impending nervous breakdown".
One morning Scarlet looks down at her breakfast table "in horrified disgust" and realizes that even her impending nervous breakdown is a cliche.
One recent study found that 26 percent of respondents to a national survey in 1996 reported that they had experienced an "impending nervous breakdown," compared with 19 percent from the same survey in 1957.
There were times we'd gather in smaller, informal settings as needed: if one of us had a crisis, an upcoming job interview, an impending mental breakdown, or looming unemployment – which nearly every one of us had faced at one point or another.
Open fractures, grossly displaced fractures with severe impingement of soft tissues and those with impending skin breakdown (tongue-type fractures) are treated operatively.
