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The phrase "a patchy group of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a group that is inconsistent, incomplete, or lacking in cohesion.
Example: "The committee was made up of a patchy group of volunteers, each with varying levels of commitment and expertise."
Alternatives: "an uneven group of" or "a fragmented group of".
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Ms. Malamud held firmly to the dramatic center of a scene from Act II of "Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria," singing Penelope amid a patchy group of suitors.
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Finally, a third line of evidence for the detection of HTs is a patchy distribution of the sequences within a group of taxa (as they are not vertically transmitted).
Bad things go down in the woods today in this patchy but promising Brit thriller, as a drifter co-opts a group of teenage truants into a dangerous game.
The information was still patchy, but witnesses said that a group of pirates had recently arrived with a female hostage in a notorious pirate den hundreds of miles inside Somalia, showing that Somalia's pirates have the reach and ambition to attack on land, and also inside Kenya.
Kidman has suffered a patchy run of form recently.
All these factors contribute to a patchy experience of groundwater projects to date.
The Southern Ocean showed a patchy mix of increases and decreases.
In the distance, a patchy landscape of tea plantations and scrublands stretches out toward the horizon.
The only consolation is that the Globes have a patchy record of predicting the Oscars.
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