1, Military technology advances by fits and starts.

2, He spoke in fits and starts.

3, Technology advances by fits and starts.

4, The radio works by fits and starts.

5, The radio works in fits and starts.

6, Replies to the advertisement are arriving in fits and starts.

7, My slimming attempts tend to go in fits and starts.

8, The conversation is awkward, moving in fits and starts.

9, But civilization was approaching in fits and starts.

10, It has continued in fits and starts ever since.

11, Electoral reform is moving ahead in fits and starts.

12, In fits and starts he told Seton, Ramsay(), Gray and others the sorry tale.

13, Although change often unfolds in fits and starts, organisations can learn to improve.

14, My watch goes by fits and starts.

15, Nothing worthwhile can be accomplished by fits and starts.

16, They worked in fits and starts.

17, This watch of mine goes by fits and starts.

18, Youth only recognizes age by fits and starts.

19, In fits and starts,(http:///fits and starts.html) this is beginning to happen.

20, He worked on his book by fits and starts.

21, The replies to the advertisement are arriving in fits and starts.

22, If you work by fits and starts, you will never achieve much.

23, And today, as the economy sputters in fits and starts, we should all stop and consider this truth: the one thing worse than being unemployed is living with the fear of unemployment.

24, Because of other commitments I can only write my book in fits and starts.

25, But his proposals for electoral reform, now moving ahead in fits and starts, contain no such provision.

26, Stucco lies in drifts of powdered plaster. Street lighting is spasmodic and piped water comes in sluggish fits and starts.

27, What was their history: had they progressed smoothly or with fits and starts?

28, Street lighting is spasmodic and piped water comes in sluggish fits and starts.

29, This means the machine tends to go forward in fits and starts, sometimes quite quickly but at other times embarrassingly slowly.

30, As you may know that most people in China learn English by fits and starts.

31, Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts.

32, My brother studied accounting by fits and starts, so he failed.

33, The program was active in fits and starts, and it was essentially killed in 2004 because it was deemed ineffective, former and current intelligence officials said.

34, I aimless by fits and starts, you can't walk out of the world.

35, She did everything by fits and starts, but stuck to nothing long.

36, By fits and starts, the old car finally got us to town.

37, He has never had any continuous employment; he only works by fits and starts.