11.   An unsuccessful attempt to fix the faucet ourselves.

12.   In the House, a decision was delayed whilst Democrats and Republicans negotiated in an unsuccessful attempt to reach a consensus over the scope and procedures of the inquiry.

13.   Yet it was not an unsuccessful attempt to bring out the best in his audience.

14.   If it is, you have probably tried to create the new database twice, after an unsuccessful first attempt.

15.   On the day of admission, after an unsuccessful attempt to draw pus from the right peritonsillar tissue, a bilateral tonsillectomy was done.

16.   There had been many unsuccessful attempts to find a satisfactory solution but none of them, unlike the present invention, actually worked.

17.   At an earlier hearing the court heard that the police had made unsuccessful attempts to serve the complaint.

18.   And a New Jersey businessman, Robert E. Brennan, recently made an unsuccessful attempt to buy the Devils and keep them at the Meadowlands.

19.   And many of them, well-educated in Korea, became merchants only after unsuccessful attempts to find jobs in their professions.