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The phrase "and the patches of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing areas or sections that are characterized by patches, such as in nature, textiles, or other contexts where something is divided into distinct parts.
Example: "The garden was filled with vibrant flowers and the patches of green grass provided a beautiful contrast."
Alternatives: "and the areas of" or "and the sections of".
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The slow-moving river surface reflects the blue sky and the patches of white and gunmetal-coloured clouds passing overhead.
Oh, and the occasional strip of forgotten boom, and the patches of dead marsh grass here and there.
Hall and her team found that xeriscapes and the patches of desert preserved as parks within the city store more carbon in their soils than do wild desert.
After their extremely long period of immobility, the two dancers began to do isolated staccato moves that were amusing and startling; and the patches of silence in the peculiar music were funny too.
There are also long interviews with the former C.I.A. consultant Chalmers Johnson and with Charles Lewis, from the Center for Public Integrity, who, with others, lay out the simplistic America-as-imperialist-nation line, and the patches of montage support this interpretation.
I shaved off the chin hair and the patches of soft whiskers that had been populating my cheeks.
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Neither are the shaded coffee plantations that are interspersed among and link the patches of TMCF.
The worst thing about the mountain was not the stinging cold or the steep climb in the thinning oxygen and on the patches of dense ice.
Researchers then force them into neat parallel formations and lift the patches of wires off the water using thin films.
And there are suggestions of ground and shadow, between and around them, in the patches of darker grey and green.
And the patch of hair just below his lip simply will not last.
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