Sentence examples for patchy parts from inspiring English sources

Despite some patchy parts to the fossil record, he agrees with Clarke's theory that today's penguins evolved some 10 to 12 million years ago, in contrast to molecular data that pegs their origins at 40 million years ago.

The dialogue may be a bit patchy in parts, but that is overcome by the way Herzog uses his camera as a machete, dragging viewers deep into jungle thicket like you've never seen before.

If Wi-Fi is patchy in part of your house – which you can check with an app such as Amped's Wi-Fi Analytics Tool for Windows and Android – then you could kill two birds with one stone.

Chinese leaders' determination to tackle pollution seems firm, but the progress will likely be slow and patchy, in part owning to the sheer scale and depth of the problems.

However, the transition is patchy – with some parts of the country still dependent on highly polluting brown coal – and Germans bear the cost with high electricity bills.

A couple of years on and progress has been patchy, with some parts of the NHS offering a big digital presence and others lagging.

In Kv3.1 KO mice, GFAP staining significantly increased in cerebellar cortex, where Kv3.1 is normally highly expressed, but displayed in a patchy pattern in parts of the hippocampus.

Nevertheless, Smith et al. (2013) identified that the drying trend will be patchy for some part of the New Guinea region.

Patchy employment is part of the problem.

This left them short of cash to invest in infrastructure, which is why coverage remains patchy in some rural parts of Britain.

Dalton believes boards should put mental health high on their agenda: "The picture is extremely patchy and in most parts of the country they're not really making any significant contribution at all, but they could do if they asked the right questions and used their powers of scrutiny".