1. He spoke in fits and starts.

2. The radio works in fits and starts.

3. Replies to the advertisement are arriving in fits and starts.

4. My slimming attempts tend to go in fits and starts.

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

6. But civilization was approaching in fits and starts.

7. It has continued in fits and starts ever since.

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8. Electoral reform is moving ahead in fits and starts.

9. In fits and starts he told Seton, Ramsay, Gray and others the sorry tale.

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

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

12. They worked in fits and starts.

13. In fits and starts, this is beginning to happen.

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

15. 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.

16. 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.

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

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