Sentence examples for patchy progress from inspiring English sources

For now it is only patchy progress.

But other evidence suggests similarly patchy progress on labour-market reforms in southern Europe.

Nor – despite today's declaration that the three-day meeting had been a resounding success – was there more than patchy progress.

Yet, as the draft political declaration due to be launched at CSW on 9 March states, only "slow or patchy progress" has been made.

Instant-runoff voting has been used for elections to Australia's House of Representatives since 1918, and is currently making patchy progress in the United States.

There are bright spots in the effort to put together a functioning nation, Mr. Bowen found: economic growth in the Kurdish north; tribal reconciliation in the western desert province of Anbar; and patchy progress in the development of local governments.

The European Union's approach to its eastern borders is a patchy work in progress, stitched together slowly even as the facts change on the ground.

Unfortunately, any progress is patchy and slow.

Other aspects of the war remain difficult, and progress is patchy and slow, General Petraeus conceded.

Yi, G. R., Pine, D. J. & Sacanna, S. Recent progress on patchy colloids and their self-assembly.

But progress is patchy – up to half of respondents in some areas said they had insufficient food – and by some measures things are worse than before.