Sometimes it worked - up to a point.

BBC: Peter Hain tipped to leave Labour frontline politics

Sometimes in his experimentation, he recalled, he tried something and it worked well.

UNESCO: Title

Men whose lives are filled with gifts and opportunity, men who have worked hard to achieve, risk it all and sometimes lose it all.

CNN: Are men stupid?

It didn't provide everything that people wanted and I'm old enough to remember that it could provide sometimes an absolutely terrible service despite the heroic efforts of the men and women who worked on that service.

BBC: NEWS | Have Your Say | Transport Minister Kim Howells

He has worked on it at Lennoxtown and come into our training base and he's out there for sometimes 45 minutes working on his technique.

BBC: St Mirren manager Gus MacPherson