| Despite recent turbulences in the price of oil, the world economy progressed in fits and starts. |
| Over the past two years America's politicians seem to be reconciling themselves to nibbling away at the deficit in fits and starts. |
| The British Crown, in the face of American unrest, allowed these French settlers, in fits and starts, to keep their language and their religion. |
| Aside from the gym, I tend to go clubbing and pubbing in fits and starts. |
| It was built in 1961, and it's been renovated in fits and starts, so it's sort of an architectural Frankenstein. |
| The development of M-money services in Africa seemed to get going in fits and starts. |
