The phrase "as a patchy" is not correct and usable in written English.
It seems to be an incomplete expression and lacks context to convey a clear meaning.
Example: "The report was as patchy as the weather forecast, with some sections well-researched and others lacking detail."
Alternatives: "in a sporadic manner" or "in a fragmented way".
The Liverpool Biennial struck me as a patchy event.
The political references to the 1972 federal election and the Vietnam war are there only as a patchy backdrop.
Over all, it's enough for CDW to characterize the current situation in the technology industry as a "patchy turnaround".
Since its launch in 2003 with what rivals dismissed as a patchy 3G mobile internet service, Three has kept competitors on their toes with unlimited mobile data and cheap roaming.
A forest, for example, can be viewed as a patchy ecosystem that is composed of gaps in the forest canopy and clusters of trees of different ages that resulted from past disturbances.
When you use public transport in LA, it is impossible not to notice that unlike say, London's tube or some other US cities' provision, it's not so much a network as a patchy attempt at one, which is overwhelmingly occupied by people on low incomes and the working poor.
Or perhaps, she is a metaphor for Kuhn, her gloom symbolic of the artist's own sense of disappointment at a patchy career as an artist, and failure as a theatrical impresario?
A retinotopic topography in the ventral and dorsal portions of area DP and in area 7a provide a foundation for position localization [15], as does a patchy representation of attention [5].
A suite of meiosis-specific genes (Hop1, Hop2, Mnd1 and Dmc1) apparently missing in Drosophila, Anopheles and Neurospora (all sexual organisms) was previously revealed as having a patchy phylogenetic distribution [1], [55].
Transfected cells secreted the agrin fragment into the medium where it bound to the cell surfaces of transfected as well as untransfected cells in a patchy pattern (Fig. 10 A C).
The circumstances of the crime were obscure; the police were required to look for suspects in an insular and reticent Korean community, many of whom spoke no English, and as a result performed a patchy investigation.
