Sentence examples for a poor patch from inspiring English sources

And even the best teacher can have a poor lesson or even a poor patch – as teachers are human after all and things can be happening outside school which affect their performance within it.

Serena played her way through a poor patch, as she did against Capriati in the quarter-finals, while Venus gradually and inevitably succumbed to her injuries, the final reaching the conclusion that most had predicted and expected.

"All teams will hit a poor patch of form at some time during the season.

"We had a poor patch before half-time, but we dug deep and got the four tries [we needed]." Leicester must now secure a bonus-point win at Ulster next weekend and hope other results go their way if they are to make the last eight.

When the task performance is low (visiting a "poor" patch), the motivation decreases and the subject becomes less sensitive to the task-relevant stimuli (tonic mode).

Coming to terms with his own slightly diminished powers at 33, Federer appreciates that Nadal, who has won the French title nine times, has hit a few poor patches this summer, even on his favoured clay.

Even Ryan Giggs has been targeted, with ironic cheers when he was substituted during one poor patch, but this is the first time a player has been targeted because of his surname.

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Leading from it were the familiar ridges of raised earth upon which my poor patches of grass resembled the sparse fringes curling round a bald man's head.

However, our finding that low-quality females produced more daughters in the acorn-poor seasons cannot support the advantaged daughter hypothesis because LRC should be higher in poor patches where low-quality females might inhabit.

Malthouse's teams will always be competitive, as they were last year when threatening in most games to only fall away after a poor 10-minute patch.