Sporadically meaning

It would have been reasonable to expect to find them sporadically all over Australia.

has since been found sporadically in a similar situation in other botanical gardens, its most recent appearance being at Lille.

Diaz's supporters refused to recognize him, and a revolution broke out, which went on sporadically till Juarez's death on the 18th of July Death of 1872.

It is true that stone implements of palaeolithic and neolithic types are found sporadically in the Nile valley, Somaliland, on the Zambezi, in Cape Colony and the northern portions of the Congo Free State, as well as in Algeria and Tunisia; but the localities are far too few and too widely separated to warrant the inference that they are to be in any way connected.

of Macedon, occurred sporadically even before Alexander's conquests brought Greek life into contact with oriental traditions.