Sentences with phrase «fit and starts»

It took five years of fits and starts before the group was finally able to build an accurate detector.

Clearly, the accumulation of pension wealth is not smooth and steady, but rises with fits and starts after age 50, due to rules of eligibility for early retirement and the like.

The twin jets — each nearly 1.5 trillion kilometers long — have distinct gaps, revealing that the star is growing by fits and starts.

As a result my investment career (which started aged 18) went in fits and starts for several years.

It was a bumpy ride, with fits and starts as technologies were exhausted and new ones created.

Although it has lost three hours in 2,000 years, within that slowing there are random fits and starts.

After a few fits and starts, he's now starting to make his own videos, too.

In - house legal departments, which have grown in fits and starts since 1980, have provided the laboratory in which legal management has been genetically engineered.

Or would you throw a little fit and start defending yourself?

I've always followed my passion so I said yes to the opportunities that were a good fit and started thinking about how to make what I was doing a sustainable career.

I just hope we can keep key players fit and start shutting up shop at the back.

Both areas have seen fits and starts of new construction but have most of their potential ahead of them.

The energy crisis is something very different: a slow - motion problem unfolding in fits and starts right before our eyes, often in foreseeable ways.

If he's fully fit and starts, I'm comfortable.

The longstanding fits and starts and cost of the project have invited scrutiny.

The theory has evolved in fits and starts ever since.

Since then, the fund has grown in adolescent fits and starts.

Presumably this build - up and let - go of pressure occurs in internally generated fits and starts, and is unrelated to the temperature.

Blogging has also motivated me to keep on more of a «creative schedule», than fits and starts creatively.

There are no easy fixes, but we see signs of progress after a series of fits and starts.

Prepare yourself — this transition will come with fits and starts.

This recipe for blueberry buckwheat pancakes will probably be my last blog recipe of 2015, it's been a year of fits and starts over here with very infrequent updates.

The votes come after fits and starts in negotiations involving Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and eight Republican Senators.

Call it the Postmodern paradox, and it can mean forgetting how many fits and starts art has had along the way.

Januzaj's career has been a story of fits and starts at Old Trafford, as David Moyes clearly believed in him but Van Gaal is yet to be convinced, but at only 21, there's still time for the Belgian.

Since then, the sector has ground higher through fits and starts, and now sits 4 percent below its 52 - week high set on Jan. 29.

Thanks to this approach, Phen375 was able to help more than 200 thousand customers to get fit and start leading a fabulous life!

Drakengard sets the stage for an interesting tale, and while the storytelling suffers from fits and starts during the first few hours of the game, the destiny of Caim will have RPG fans gripping their controllers tightly throughout all of the game's five (yes... that's right... FIVE) endings.

«When you come in with a big change, there [are] normally fits and starts, and it's a little jerky.

«Fifty Shades of Gray» moves ahead in fits and starts like a taxi stalled in New York's Canal Street traffic, an episodic adventure showing off Christian's latest sex toys.

It's hard, and it's something that I fail at most of the time, but it's something I've experienced in little fits and starts along the way, enough to know that it's worth it.

Everyone was not doing it, and after several fits and starts, Kay started selling Mooshwalks both directly and through retailers last year.

Many of Ambarella's target markets, like drones and virtual reality, are still in their infancy, so fits and starts shouldn't be unexpected.

Theo is already on 211 premier league games for Arsenal and has struck just 50, although these games have come in fits and starts rather than solid runs in the side.

In terms of physical preparation for There Will Be Blood, Day - Lewis has said: «There wasn't anything to do but stay fit and start digging holes.»

One massive ice sheet, more than 3 kilometres thick in places, grew in fits and starts until it covered almost all of Canada and stretched down as far as Manhattan.

The news says it all: The federal government's big online health insurance exchange, Healthcare.gov, is giving people fits and starts as they try to learn about different plans and take action as needed.

Fits and Starts reading it myself.

The team suffered fits and starts over the first month and a half and really didn't find it's best groove until late October.

Within 24 hours, he'd arrived to rip out the old fittings and start on the renovation.

Despite fits and starts of government interest and funding (Darpa has bankrolled research since 2008 as part of its chemical - detecting RealNose project), the elements of an odor print have been elusive.

In aggregate, American business has done wonderfully over time and will continue to do so (though, most assuredly, in unpredictable fits and starts).

But Bernstein admits in his book that there are always fits and starts within these longer - term -LSB-...]

But he makes progress only by ragged fits and starts.