Sentence examples for relatively patchy from inspiring English sources

France already generates most of its power using nuclear technology; Germany has pledged to phase out the technology, and nuclear generation in other European countries is relatively patchy.

The league form was relatively patchy, with three defeats in 11 games seeing Chelsea finish in their lowest position under Abramovich.

REGROUPS has been shown to properly group activation times from normal and abnormal propagation patterns, including when data are of relatively patchy quality [ 14].

Although the infection was thought to be restricted to relatively small patchy isolated foci separated by large disease-free areas (11 ), our impression is that the more one looks for the disease in known disease-endemic and nearby areas the more likely additional cases will be found.

Early results from research into social networks and infant deaths have shown that a nationwide programme of social and community-based support for teenage mothers is working well, but that support available to new mothers and mothers to be in ethnic minority groups, where infant death rates are also relatively high, is patchy.

Hydrothermal vents are relatively small and patchy habitats within the axial summit troughs (AST) of the mid-ocean ridges - large, continuous and scarcely populated bare basalt surfaces.

This pattern reflects the current relatively rare and patchy distribution of calcareous bedrocks within a matrix of siliceous bedrocks in the Scandes, whereas the areas covered by the two types of bedrock are much more balanced in the Alps [71].

(ii) the relatively small, ephemeral, patchy hydrothermal vents at which a distinct zonation of foundation species and their associated faunas along a physical and chemical stress gradient of hydrothermal vent fluids are found.

Rather, we observed relatively weak and patchy EdU incorporation immediately after pachytene, possibly reflecting repair DNA synthesis.

We think that the relatively weak and patchy EdU incorporation observed in lin-41 nuclei immediately after pachytene likely reflects repair DNA synthesis.

Here's how they're getting involved: Anyone trained in first aid is useful at the camp, where medical provision is patchy and relatively scarce.