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Mrs Ndisang said "no reason was given" as to why intermission was refused "but it was very clear intermitting was not an option".

But county officials also warned that there may still be lingering, intermitting connection issues.

And François Lutzoni, an evolutionary biologist at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, sees similar fast evolution in lichens, another intermit partnership.

Every term more students “intermit” – the Cambridge term for taking some time out.

He was not ill above four or five days; an old hurt in his leg, which has been some time healed up, broke out again, and put him into an intermitting fever.