| They wore beige camouflage drabs, a black helmet, which also doubled as a gas mask, and wore revlar vests. |
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| They wore winter drabs, and I couldn't decide whether they were Australasian or Hoary-headed grebes. |
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| Our warm-ups are properly organised, and get everyone totally prepared, whereas other teams tend to turn up in dribs and drabs. |
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| But they are happening in dribs and drabs, so you don't see the whole picture. |
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| That statement went out in dribs and drabs overnight and the Times and the Post have stories on it on their websites today. |
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| Our man is checking the literature, and feeding his findings to us in dribs and drabs. |
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| Companies have been able to outsource because it's been in dribs and drabs, a few thousand jobs here and there. |
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| It always comes in dribs and drabs but there are clear signs of a shortage this year. |
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| But in dribs and drabs most of those picked up have been granted refugee status and allowed to stay. |
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| That's not a job that can be done in dribs and drabs, though. |
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| They arrive in dribs and drabs, and Alexander pins them down immediately. |
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| Information is filtering through in dribs and drabs from both the authorities and the individual himself. |
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| I generally buy a bunch of stuff on Sundays that I expect to use during the week, but I always end up stocking up in dribs and drabs during the week. |
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| But blather she must, in dribs and drabs, to enable the novel's very existence. |
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| The islands we live on had been known as Britain for a long time before the English even arrived here in dribs and drabs sometime in the fifth or sixth century. |
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| I prefer to do my confessing in dribs and drabs, sharing little pieces of my life right here every week, although I'm not always aware I'm even doing it. |
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| I am sorry to say that information about the details only reaches me in dribs and drabs. |
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| Cultural rights must not be recognised in dribs and drabs, but convincingly and generously. |
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| Right now, it seems as though information is being given out in dribs and drabs. |
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| Again it is dribs and drabs, but it really does not affect the whole issue in any sense of the word. |
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| Since its creation, all governments have increased its funding by dribs and drabs. |
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| The forestry sector is getting assistance in dribs and drabs, while jobs are being slashed. |
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| The crown cannot decide whether to give little dribs and drabs of evidence to the defence to make its case. |
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| One has only to begin losing one's memory, if only in dribs and drabs, to understand that memory is the very essence of life. |
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| These dribs and drabs were nowhere near enough. The proposed new bail-out looks like a step forward. |
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| Even these grants, when they are given to poor, medium-sized farmers, are meted out in drips and drabs and Greece is a typical example here. |
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| Oh, and don't forget heartburn suffered by many when an Army battle dress uniform was pressed upon us in exchange for the old olive drabs. |
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| The news from Lake Wobegone is Hearstian by comparison as the dribs and drabs from the dedicated correspondents fill a 32-page edition like some soothing tidal flat. |
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| While this was going on, Edward's main battle force, his foot, marched and straggled in much disarray towards the battlefield, arriving in dribs and drabs through the late evening. |
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| We are seeing dribs and drabs of information come forward. |
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| Acceptance of her impending blindness comes in dribs and drabs. |
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| It came out in dribs and drabs in a very confusing set of announcements. |
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| Lost in all this is Halston, who comes through only in dribs and drabs. |
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| So Stevens's response, when it came, trickled down in dribs and drabs. |
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| But the self-driving car is already arriving in dribs and drabs. |
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| It's in dribs and drabs, if I can use that terminology, because of course the secrecy has meant that it has been very difficult for us to be able to access people to find out what is happening in families. |
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| But the problem for Europe is that the new helicopters are currently in the process of being built and fielded and are arriving only in dribs and drabs in the current major theatre of operations, Afghanistan. |
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