As a decorator, Ms. Brown is not afraid to reveal imperfections, like a crack in the ceiling, a patchy paint job or the torn bottom of a chair.
A large number of people from the northeast leave their home states, where development is patchy and jobs scarce, to work and study in the country's large cities like Bangalore, Chennai and Pune.
The project was in rural Thailand, and $200 could have probably bought a lot of educational resources, hired a few teachers for a month, or done a list of other things which would have added more educational value than our patchy blue paint job.
Patchy levels of jobs growth in parts of the north and the continuing squeeze on living standards should make the Bank of England think twice before considering a rate raise.
Under my photographer's flash, my jacket looked as if it had been in a fight with a tin of talcum powder, the spray job as patchy as vitiligo, even when I used a second can on it.
If you're planning to give a rather large gift this holiday season, follow these simple steps to wrapping it like an expert ― free from the patchy cut-and-tape job seen all too often.
Together they have done a commendable job, assembling a patchy, if intensely lively, show.
There would need to be adjustments to "credit in" parents and carers who can't work and also, arguably, the increasing band whose temporary, part-time or zero-hours jobs make for patchy careers.
Grey has spiky dark hair and patchy stubble; imagine Pedro Almodóvar without a job.
The income from such exertions too is patchy, so Ms. Rao went to the job fair to look for a steady job and a regular income.
