Sentence examples for only patchy from inspiring English sources

For now it is only patchy progress.

His attempts to put the chuckles into Chomsky, although brave, meet with only patchy success.

The strike began on August 24th with a few barricades by protesters and only patchy support.

Efforts to attract private investment for infrastructure have had only patchy success.

Even if compliance were only patchy, that would still be an improvement on the war zones that pockmark Syria today.

Nucleic-acid amplification, a technique for sifting through blood samples looking for SARSDNA, yields only patchy results.

Scientists have only a patchy understanding of the steps in between.

Meanwhile, a national "day of action" urged by South Africa's biggest labor federation drew only a patchy response.

The National Weather Service had predicted more fog for today, but airport officials said only minor patchy fog developed, the sun broke through and there were no flight delays.

Recommended improvements to the service provided by Atos, the IT firm that holds the contract to carry out the assessments, had only been "patchy".

In her old age, with only a patchy memory of the past, it still hurt her that her older brother had been the preferred child.