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EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Sporadic gunfire continued through the night.
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sporadic outbreaks of disease
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Our advertising campaigns have been too sporadic to have had a lot of success.
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Since then he has been on sporadic drinking binges.
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There was rioting and sporadic fighting in the city as rival gangs clashed.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Different patterns of clinical involvement with genetic transmission or sporadic occurrence are recognised.
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I kept hearing aircraft passing low overhead and sporadic gunfire from automatic weapons.
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Major cities hit by sporadic uprisings and riots.
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Secondly, familial cases have sometimes shown a lower age at onset than sporadic cases, which is consistent with aetiological heterogeneity.
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The next day the government declared a curfew from 9 p.m to 4 a.m., as sporadic rioting and shooting continued.
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The random background meteors that do not belong to discrete meteor showers are called sporadic meteors.
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There was now a lull in the battle, though sporadic cannon and musket fire were still heard.