Sentence examples for our knowledge is patchy from inspiring English sources

Our knowledge is patchy among and within higher taxonomic groups; we are still largely gathering case studies.

There is some evidence of primates living in Africa about 55m years ago, but the knowledge is patchy and comes only from a few bones and teeth.

This rather lacklustre response from health professionals is consistent with our findings from interviews with health professionals (reported elsewhere [ 24]), which showed that health professionals' knowledge was patchy, they wished for clearer guidelines to bring uniformity to their practice, and they were often not clear if pre-pregnancy care was their responsibility.

However, our knowledge of host range across the B. tabaci complex is decidedly patchy with much of our knowledge being assumed on the basis of scant comparisons against the highly invasive MED and MEAM1 both of which have a very broad host range.

"Across large metropolitan areas like Sydney or Melbourne, our understanding is patchy," he says.

My knowledge of concert films is patchy, to say the least.

Detailed knowledge on Antarctic permafrost is patchy, especially at the continent.

Service provider's knowledge of available services is patchy and there is reliance on informal interpreters (patients' children, relatives and friends) as a pragmatic response to acute consultation needs.

Our biographical knowledge of the great Elizabethan and Jacobean writers is patchy and often two-dimensional.

Almost all of our useful knowledge is potential knowledge.

Thirdly, unlike synthetic drugs, pharmacological and toxicological knowledge about the specified chemical constituents of TCHM is patchy at best.