1. Long-term planning is always rather a hit-or-miss affair.

2. The action scenes are hit-or-miss; you wonder whether the filmmakers blurred the images because they didn't have time to get the effects right.

3. John did a lot of hit-or-miss reading, some of it about taxes.

4. The collection was hit-or-miss , but it was a marked improvement over Fall.

5. Noyes characterized the Vatican's approach to public relations as a "hit-or-miss proposition," and said "decision making" is divorced from "public spin."

6. Of course,[http://] reliability can be a rather hit-or-miss issue no matter where a car is built.

7. EXAMPLE: The hit-or-miss service at the hotel annoyed guests who never knew if either their rooms would be cleaned or their bills properly calculated.

8. It was a very hit-or-miss affair, totally lacking any kind of organization.

9. He did a lot of hit-or-miss reading, some of it about taxes.

10. That crazy hit-or-miss system based on random chance encounters was one heck of an inefficient way to run a recycling program.

11. The teachers did not have time to plan their courses for the new examination(), and so their teaching was a hit-or-miss affair.

12. This, of course, can be accomplished through daily work experience, which is hit-or-miss approach that requires more time with no guarantee of results.

13. David didn't know which cassette had the songs by Michael Jackson , so he began playing the record , trying the cassette hit-or-miss.

14. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - There are no good drugs to treat dementia and doctors just need to try them in a hit-or-miss fashion to try to help patients, according to new guidelines released on Monday.

15. Does the company have a compensation system or is it pretty much a hit-or-miss proposition?

16. I know what you mean. Sightseeing can be such a hit-or-miss thing.

17. X-ray telescopes can detect this gas, but finding targets has been a hit-or-miss proposition.

18. Biggest X factor: Other than Grant Hill staying healthy, you'd have to go with Barbosa, who's turned into a hit-or-miss scorer off the bench and not much else.

19. The pursuit of a genuine variety of opinions that are well thought through and well grounded is essential. But that has an off-and-on, hit-or-miss connection with ethnic and racial diversity.

20. However, outside of urban tech hotspots like New York and San Francisco, this is still a decidedly hit-or-miss operation.

21. China and the United States lavished funds on similar research. Predicting earthquakes, however, remains a hit-or-miss proposition, often a matter of luck.