Sentence examples for this is patchy from inspiring English sources

Backing for this is patchy.

The evidence for some of this is patchy.

Still, the evidence for all this is patchy; and it does not suggest that immigrants are responsible for a particularly large part of the overall fertility rise, in France at least.Of course, like Germany, France is demographically unusual.

With thresholds for statutory intervention are climbing ever higher as cuts bite, even a referral by police or school may not prompt much meaningful action: the services that could offer this are patchy and often provided by voluntary sector specialists that have lost funding and therefore the capacity to help early on.

In the early stages of the programme, this was patchy and those who lacked it reported being less effective in engaging with their GP colleagues.

The evidence of prevalence of this mutation is patchy with few studies looking at this locus and those that have show considerable differences in prevalence between countries.

Despite increasingly prescriptive official guidance about avoiding alcohol when pregnant, the evidence base on this subject is patchy at best.

The remainder of this production is patchy, however, and the visuals are below par by Paper Mill's typically opulent standards.

But the history of startups in this space is patchy.

A possible cause of this pattern is patchy collapse of small airways early in exhalation.

The natural range for this species is patchy, as a result of several migratory pathways following the end of the last ice age (Liepelt et al. 2009).