Sentence examples for slightly patchy from inspiring English sources

It was a slightly patchy performance tonight from Murray, who played an unimpressive second set and was then broken when he served for victory.

As theories go, it tends to ignore the reason these players' contracts might be under question in the first place, and generally the evidence in support of this premise was slightly patchy this weekend.

He highlighted what he called the confused picture from a "multispeed world" where emerging markets are economically and financially strong while mature ones are "credit-impaired" and undergoing "slightly patchy recovery and some political uncertainty".

There's a slightly patchy one – Nell, Ted And Marlon – about a member of So Solid Crew helping out with a community choir, but the real treat here is Alex Lowe and Fraser Steele's Barry, featuring Lowe's octogenarian character Barry from Watford.

After a year these plots had changed from low density, only slightly patchy plots to very structured, high density plots.

This time science took centre stage.At the top are some old stars: Finland as usual did best for all-round excellence, followed by South Korea (which did best in reading) and Hong Kong; Canada and Taiwan were strong but slightly patchier, followed by Australia and Japan.

Cytoplasmic (perinuclear) staining was also seen, in contrast, being prominent, though somewhat patchy, in both controls (median 43%) and in the H.pylori gastritis cases, which gave a slightly higher median distribution of 46.5%.

At the Globex trading system, S&P futures are slightly lower, indicating a patchy opening when trading gets under way at 9 30 AM EST.

After 48 h, seeds were rinsed with distilled water and observed under a stereoscopic microscope: highly stained seeds were considered as viable, while unstained, patchy or slightly stained seeds were scored as non-viable (ISTA 2012).

Though the Lins live in Palo Alto, their family home is a modest ranch, with roof tiles that are slightly warped and a small, patchy front lawn.

Today, the black-and-white ruffed lemur has a much larger range than the red ruffed lemur, although it is very patchy, extending from slightly northwest of Maroantsetra, on Antongil Bay, in the north down the coast to the Mananara River near Vangaindrano in the south.