Sentence examples for has become patchy from inspiring English sources
With Bottega Veneta, Calvin Klein, Ermenegildo Zegna absent from the Milan menswear schedule, the usually packed week has become patchy.
Since then it has become patchy again as new homesteads have been built on subdivided farms and more food is produced on the higher slopes.
Its range has become patchy throughout Borneo, being largely extirpated from various parts of the island, including the southeast.
John Page, the World Bank's economist for Africa, points out that real income per person in Africa rose by only 25% between 1960 and 2005; in East Asia, it went up no less than 34 times faster in the same period.As a result, foreign enthusiasm for Africa has been fickle and aid has become patchier because rich countries do not trust African ones to spend their money wisely.
Public health has become a national-security issue.Early responses are often patchy.
The volume of requests has become so large, and the rules guarding personal information so patchy, that in March a coalition of Internet companies and communications carriers teamed up with civil liberties groups in an effort to lobby Congress.
The club was Bklyn Yard, a bit of patchy grass with a few dance platforms that has become a destination for electronica fans on weekend afternoons.
These efforts have produced patchy results, but South Africa, once an international pariah, has become a favourite mediator for addressing Africa's myriad conflicts.But the Myanmar vote is an awkward way to advance such worthy aims.
When younger, she had anger-management issues and patchy school attendance, but Mitchell, from Stratford, east London, has become the "Big Sis" of the club.
Since the advent of genome sequencing, the patchy distribution of type I PKS genes in the tree of life has become evident [ 14– 16].
Introduced by the Italians at the advent of colonial rule, the bicycle has become the primary means of transport in much of the country, where petrol supplies are often patchy.
