41.   Three ceasefires have been declared in the five-week war since late Monday, but all have collapsed within hours.

42.   Virabongsa warned in November that Thai Airways could collapse within three years unless its management and working style changed.

43.   Many construction experts have expressed worries that some of the towering apartment blocks might collapse within a few years.

44.   Northern authorities have called five ceasefires in the civil war, but all have collapsed within hours.

45.   Northern authorities have called five ceasefires in the war, but all have collapsed within hours.

46.   The bank collapsed within days and was acquired by ING bank of The Netherlands.

47.   The coup attempt collapsed within three days.

48.   The BJP itself formed a government in New Delhi last year following hung elections but it collapsed within a fortnight after failing to win a parliamentary majority.

49.   The coup collapsed within three days after Russian President Boris Yeltsin defiantly refused to cooperate with the State of Emergency Committee and Gorbachev returned to his post in Moscow.