Sentence examples for are so patchy that from inspiring English sources
National controls on fleets and harbours are so patchy that the EU's Court of Auditors said in 2007 that real catch levels were "unknown".
The welfare safety net is so patchy that in dozens of boroughs across London and the south-east, almost two-thirds of poor families do not meet the criteria.
It's true that we're not great at embracing short-term pain for long-term gain – but the current retirement savings system is so patchy and complicated that navigating it, and ensuring your plan (if you're lucky enough to have one) is good and offers a reasonable mix of investment options requires a level of sophistication and a time commitment that many of us simply don't have.
But the fossil record of land-dwelling organisms is so patchy this far back in time that it's difficult to say for sure which wings came first.
Because they were so ephemeral, and documentation is so patchy, art historians have spent decades trying to figure that out.
The reality is that the situation is so patchy and falsified by the US presence, we probably just don't know.
This, one might suspect, is why the last 25 years of Muppetry have been so patchy.
But it's difficult to draw similar conclusions about Britain or France because the data is so patchy.
The question arises then as to why its implementation has been so patchy.
There is something strange about her legs; her grasp of the world around her is patchy, yet occasionally her insights into the banal are so beautiful that they bring up you short.
