Sentence examples for patchy history from inspiring English sources

The representation of US presidents on film has had a patchy history, recently.

Still, it can be hard separating jewels from dross in the patchy history of art in Britain.

You've had a long (and patchy) history of collaborations with him since, but this was a highlight.

Bisected by the M1, the wood has a patchy history of felling, replanting and constant usage since the 13th century, when it was part of the estate of the Earls of Stamford.

The college has a patchy history, dating back to the 13th century with a roll call including Donne, the satirist Jonathan Swift, the radical politician Charles James Fox, and the Maltese prime minister Dom Mintoff.

In the citation read out in Oslo yesterday, the committee made clear that it was also overdue recognition for more than 16 years of difficult, largely unsung work and for one of the greatest success stories in the long, patchy history of multilateral disarmament, on a relatively small budget of £60m a year.

The constraints Austen's patchy epistolary history place on the biographer, even one as sensitive to the lacunae as Byrne, put one in mind of the considerable intrinsic difficulties of the "letter" genre itself.

The two companies have a patchy privacy history of their own.

First, the common sense: A pattern like this could suggest there's something underlying his patchy employment history other than a bad economy or bum luck.

SERVING borrowers with patchy credit histories has never been more perilous.

The patchy credit histories of subprime and low-documentation borrowers made it hard to model default rates accurately.