Sentence examples for that are patchy from inspiring English sources

This is because they are equipped with interlaminar connections and horizontal intra-laminar connections that are patchy in nature.

The scolding, cadenced admonitions rolling out of Olivia Pope — crisis handler, presidential girlfriend and major buzzkill — were a sign of continuity in last Thursday's Season 3 premiere of ABC's "Scandal," an episode that was patchy and transitional but drew a series-record 10.5 million viewers.

It isn't just information from the plane that's patchy.

Finally, Fim1p-mEGFP localizes in the midline area in a cortical pattern that is patchy rather than ring-like (Fig. 2E).

Since LGT can produce a distribution of proteins that is patchy across the SSU rDNA tree, taxonomic groups, and any other hierarchical relationship that might be proposed [ 32- 34], it is not necessarily the case that the first sequenced representative of a genus or phylum will contain many proteins that are "new" in the sense of having homology to no presently known proteins.

And the evidence for that is patchy.

We investigated the temporal variation of soil bulk density (BD) in a semiarid Macrochloa tenacissima grassland where BD plays a key role in the soil plant feedback mechanisms that are responsible for the patchy distribution of vegetation.

Beyond that, the details are patchy.

However, it is clear that the benefits are patchy.

Where women are identified as having a mental illness, their care is hampered by the fact that specialist services are patchy, at best.

From the micrographs, it appears that the films are patchy and not continuous.