Sentence examples for patchy knowledge of from inspiring English sources

I've got such patchy knowledge of so much other music.

An Ofsted report into history teaching in 2007 found young people had a "patchy" knowledge of key historical events.

This Nabokovian jauntiness co-exists uneasily with the world-historical seriousness Amis adopted from Saul Bellow that, when combined with a patchy knowledge of world history and some primordial anxiety about cultural otherness, results in some pretty incoherent political postures.

Scotland Yard has admitted "potential opportunities" were missed and that investigators who failed to see "striking similarities" between the deaths had only patchy knowledge of the use of drugs linked to the gay sex scene.

"I know that it's a big tournament and that a lot of people like Hong Kong, going there to watch as much as to play," Isles says, the easygoing generality of his answer betraying an understandably patchy knowledge of rugby and its culture.

So, the Roman or religious historian has the delicate job of understanding and analyzing these networks of complementary but conflicting meanings and at the same time, the exciting task of finding, inventing, or borrowing best methods for constructing critical paths through or round our patchy knowledge of what inevitably remains an alien society.

The survey revealed high confidence but patchy knowledge amongst nurses of the requirements for safe blood transfusion.

He was largely praised as producing a nuanced report that filled in patchy knowledge about the laundries.

The patchy and shallow knowledge of Artemia species (e.g. the unknown level of ploidy from many parthenogenetic strains not included in this study and the uncertainty on the distribution of A. urmiana [44]), and the difficulties in obtaining samples from Central Asia limit any large-scale study like ours.

Our understanding of how evolution acts on biological networks remains patchy, as is our knowledge of how that action is best identified, modelled and understood.

A survey commissioned by the ICRC to coincide with the 60th anniversary of the 1949 conventions found that knowledge of them was patchy, even in places that had recently seen conflict.