1 Her attendance at school was sporadic.

2 There has been sporadic violence downtown.

3 In spite of sporadic violence, polling was largely orderly.

4 There were reports of sporadic fighting in the streets.

5 I make sporadic efforts to sort out my files.

6 Since then he has been on sporadic drinking binges.

7 Too sporadic to measure on the feh scale.

8 Major cities hit by sporadic uprisings and riots.

9 Sporadic gunfire continued through the night.

10 Sporadic friction with Madrid is inevitable and expected.

11 The next day they withdrew under sporadic artillery bombardment.

12 Sporadic sniper fire continued throughout Jan. 20 in Baku.

13 The sporadic gunfire, explosions and shouting in the depths of the forest,[www.Sentencedict.com] seemed to belong to a different world.

14 Our advertising campaigns have been too sporadic to have had a lot of success.

15 Why, after a campaign punctuated by sporadic Khmer Rouge attacks, was the election allowed to proceed relatively peacefully?

16 There was rioting and sporadic fighting in the city as rival gangs clashed.

17 The unpredictable, sporadic nature of storms on an open coast presumably render exposed shores unstable in this respect.

18 Perhaps it means that low-key, sporadic participation, which is the norm for most displays of citizenship, is not enough?

19 The sporadic shutting off of town centres by selective use of barriers is already under way to stop the bombers.

20 Hence, interest was slight and sporadic, and the works were not assimilated into mainstream western art history.

21 The next day, after sporadic incidents, violent disorder erupted at about 7.00 p. m. Disorder occurred again in 1986.

22 More than 100 people have been killed this year in sporadic outbursts of ethnic violence.

23 As the permanent workplace becomes a shifting work space, daily face-to-face contact with fellow workers is increasingly sporadic.

24 In many rural districts provision was still patchy and enforcement of attendance sporadic.

25 In addition, these authors reported the personal communication of three possible unpublished cases of carcinoids developing in patients with sporadic Zollinger-Ellison sydrome.

26 The free trade zone failed in various incarnations, and investment has been only sporadic.

27 Thus a considerable number of cases of both ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease are sporadic or non-genetic.

28 They had lost a slew of close games, were getting minimal production from their frontcourt and sporadic play from the perimeter.

29 But the fossil record of the insects is far from perfect - very sporadic and selective.

30 Gold is distributed throughout mineralised quartz veins, not just in sporadic shoots.