Usage examples of "ça et là" in French with translation to English

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En ce temps-là, les bicyclettes commençaient juste à devenir populaires, et ça et là, il y avait de nombreux débutants qui bousculaient les gens et passaient à travers leurs haies. At that time, bicycles were just starting to get popular and, here and there, there were many unskilled beginners who ran into people and broke through their hedges.
J'ai appris un peu de français ici et là. I picked up some French here and there.
Termine ça et envoie tout le truc sur mon téléphone. Finish that, and then send the whole caboodle to my cellphone.
Les oiseaux chantent çà et là dans le parc. Birds are singing here and there in the park.
Pourquoi tu me parles d'hippopotames tout d'un coup ? Je ne vois pas le rapport entre ça et tes douze poissons rouges. Why are you telling me about hippos all of the sudden? I don't see the connection between that and your twelve red goldfishes.
Il y a de superbes fleurs ci et là dans la jardin. There are beautiful flowers here and there in the garden.
Il est presqu'impossible de porter à travers la foule le flambeau de la vérité sans roussir ici et là une barbe. It is almost impossible to bear the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody’s beard.
Ils ont fouillé ici et là à la recherche de survivants. They searched here and there looking for survivors.
Les Britanniques et les Français ont débarqué dans le coin, pris une carte et dessiné quelques lignes ici et là. The British and the French came around, took a map and drew up a few lines here and there.
Nous l'avons cherché çà et là. We looked for it here and there.
À l'époque, les bicyclettes commençaient à être populaires et, ici et là, il y avait de mauvais débutants qui renversaient les passants et défonçaient leurs clôtures. At that time, bicycles were just starting to get popular and, here and there, there were many unskilled beginners who ran into people and broke through their hedges.
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