The pallid recovery should strengthen next year as exporters, spurred by a weak pound, hit their stride.
Sony has made some positive steps in accommodating them, but needs to hit its stride to exploit them.
Notably, it was only after the war that Ahmanson truly hit his stride.
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Blackberry didn't hit its stride until it became available from major U.S. carriers.
"Those guys are a good team over there, they just haven't hit their stride, " Yankees first baseman Lyle Overbay said.
However, it wasn't until the release of his 1989 self-titled album that Finn hit his stride as a solo act.
Ambrose hit his stride when he began his work on D-Day June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II.
But for my money, Dengue Fever really hit their stride when they rock out and let Nimol lay into quirky, melodramatic Khmer melodies.
The fates of the San Diego and the wireless economy are inextricably linked, and both of them are just starting to hit their stride.
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It had not been a particularly pretty game for the Eagles but quarterback Donovan McNabb seemed to hit his stride in the fourth quarter.
But it was only when Mr Root began working with his Kenya-born wife, Joan, that he really hit his stride as a cinematic storyteller.
Israeli folk music, as we know it, developed only in the 20th century and did not hit full stride until after the Second World War.
"I think now that 'Torchwood' has really hit its stride, Davies is doing a better job than he did on 'Doctor Who, ' " Steele said.
And just as Wink is beginning to hit its stride, those same companies Wilderotter worked so hard to sell on interactive TV are quietly scheming against her.
The company brokers online ad sales for a large network of buyers and sellers, and as the Web has hit its stride as a marketing vehicle, DoubleClick has become increasingly valuable.
It took them a while to hit their stride but when once they did, Chelsea imposed themselves on the game in a manner that has eluded them, to costly ends, in recent matches.
The show has hit its stride in the past three years, garnering more National Sports Emmy nominations (20) than any show in sports television, which includes a 2012 Sports Emmy in the Short Feature category.
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Writing in The Guardian, Alexis Petridis said the show was "liberally flecked with moments" which were "about more than mere nostalgia, where the band seems to suddenly hit its stride, when well-worn material comes alive".
Rangers could not find a third goal to avenge Hibernian's 3-0 win at Ibrox in November but manager Walter Smith will be satisfied with a comfortable on an evening when his players failed to hit their stride.
With the unfolding of Act Two, where the Apsaras the celestial nymphs of the dance form's heritage dominate, the program hit its stride and shimmered hypnotically, as if the subtle, sinuous and liquid ways of these female dancers embodied the ever-changing waves of light on watered silk.
The revamped programme soon began to hit its stride though and became a permanent fixture in the BBC's schedules, with programmes on a wide range of events and issues, including the hydrogen bomb, the Suez crisis, the Hungarian uprising and those 1950s perennials - race and immigration.
The 20-plot development, conceived in 1992, didn't hit its initial stride until 2004, when Moscow's skyscraper-loving Mayor Yuri Luzhkov cut the ribbon on the first tower.
While it's not true that all of her best work came later, Lombard hit her slightly cockeyed stride in the mid-to-late 1930s.
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In the end, the play people will remember from Sunday is the final touchdown in overtime, the one in which Tebow hit Demaryius Thomas in stride 18 yards downfield before Thomas stiff-armed cornerback Ike Taylor and romped another 62 yards for the winning score.
While Tebow was inaccurate on some passes and only completed 10 of 21 attempts, several of his deep throws soared down the field and hit his receivers perfectly in stride.
During one four-play stretch, he hit tight end Chris Gragg in stride 20 yards up the right hash mark.
The 2-1 shot, ridden by Kieren Fallon and trained by Aidan O'Brien, hit the front in the final stride for a narrow win over the 33-1 chance Im Sparticus.
The skipper passed hit his 19th ODI fifty and was just getting into his stride when he took on a throw from Nel that would have seen a direct hit end his innings.
After a leadoff single in the ninth, Brandon Barnes was running on the pitch when Matt Dominguez hit a line drive that was caught by Cano in full stride at second base.
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