at intervals
Now and then
At intervals means with gaps of time or space between occurrences.
Something happening at intervals is periodic rather than continuous: The bell rang at intervals throughout the day.
Trees were planted at intervals along the road.
Adding a modifier specifies the gap: at regular intervals, at five-minute intervals, at irregular intervals.
- periodicallyAt recurring intervals
- every so oftenAt scattered intervals
- sporadicallyAt irregular intervals
- now and thenAt infrequent intervals
- occasionallyAt infrequent intervals
time to time · off and on · intermittent · in fits and starts · gaps · pauses · spaced · rhythmic · staggered · here and there · scattered · few and far between · punctuated · bursts · breaks · stop and go · regular · irregular
- infrequencyrarely, seldom, infrequent, infrequently, occasionally
at intervalscontinuously
Without pause or interruption
constantly · uninterruptedly · ceaselessly · perpetually · incessantly
at intervalswithout a break
unbroken · solid · back-to-back · consecutively · contiguously
at intervalswithout fail
Certainly, every time
unvaryingly · invariably · uniformly · consistently · evenly
intervals, interval, intervene, intervening, intervention, interventional