We are preparing to bring sanctions because the diplomatic solution you advocate has failed after nearly two years.

At that point, it failed, after 68 years in business.

In 1879 a company formed to buy the estate and turn the gardens into a public pleasure park failed after two years.

He then started a competing engineering school, but it failed after three years.

The school failed after only three years, due to mismanaged finances.

The company failed after two years, but construction continued.

An attempt to run a branch in Waterbury failed after three years.

Eventually, only cotton among all those crops was grown on a small scale and failed after 10 years.

Or has that brilliant mind of yours finally failed you after so many lonely years in the asylum?

His new heart failed him after six years and he died in Toronto.