"Did anybody from the state ever make a spot check?"

So it's a sort of spot check to see how things go.

"The committee doesn't even have the ability to do proper spot checks," he said.

What you'd like to do is get a quick estimate, maybe every thousand years or so, sort of a spot check.

She had done a spot check of every box in the attic.

"If there are spot checks, how am I going to get the package back into the city?"

"Those spot checks aren't going to do anything to solve the city's real crime problems," he said.

That meant this was probably just a random spot check.

But a spot check of passengers there found no complaints.

"Might be a few miles more; all we took were spot checks."