1.   Intermittent machine-gun fire rattled through the capital throughout Friday.

2.   The sunset attack followed hours of intermittent fire between Hezbollah guerrillas and Israeli troops.

3.   There was intermittent fire for about half an hour, but no one was injured.

4.   He said other militants hiding in nearby forests and mountains were opening intermittent fire on the police post.

5.   Reinforcements had been summoned as other militants hiding in nearby forests and mountains were opening intermittent fire on the police post.