Sentence examples for patchy data from inspiring English sources
They provided patchy data, challenged valid requests and deliberately pushed back their deadlines until after Thursday's vote.
Based on these patchy data, CEOP suggest there are over 2,000 "potential offenders" in the UK.
According to the EPA, the current leakage rate is around 2.4percentt, although this number continues to be debated (thanks to patchy data).
Between fraud, poor eligibility criteria and patchy data, just a third of beneficiaries are among the poorest fifth in the countries where they live.
Nonetheless, there's just enough competition from the Bush tax cuts, and just enough uncertainty introduced by inflation and patchy data that we can't declare unequivocally the current Republican plan to be the least equal in the past half-century.
According to Goward, a decade of high prices and patchy data availability (EOSAT had reduced the number of pictures taken by Landsat to save costs) have slowed the development of easy-to-use image analysis packages.
Data on German medical students' mobility is patchy, while data on the prevalence of global health education or students' interest in global health is not available.
Climbing from 110 million in 1850, Africa's headcount reached this threshold in 2009, according to the United Nations, although patchy census data in many countries means that no one can say where or when.
The lead author of the study, Rachel Loopstra, said it was likely to have "underestimated the true burden of food insecurity in the UK" because food aid provision is patchy and data collection is relatively crude.
To get around the problem of patchy trade data for the valuable fungus, the team turned to collectors' own knowledge of production trends in China, Bhutan, Nepal and India, as reported in dozens of case studies.
The (admittedly patchy) official data show a more than tenfold increase in the annual number of large protests and disturbances since 1993, with more than 90,000 cases reported in each of the past four years.
