Sentence examples for to be patchy from inspiring English sources

Recovery tends to be patchy and slow.

Even among American customers, the downturn seems to be patchy.

The mortalities were observed to be "patchy", however, suggesting differential resistance within this species.

Though widely distributed, this species' range seems to be patchy and localized, and it seems to prefer older second growth woodland, often near edges or openings.

Progress on joint working between health and social services was also found to be patchy, although there were isolated examples of excellence.

The temperature series they give tend therefore to be patchy and even where the stations are relatively abundant, as in western Europe and America, they often contain inconsistencies.

Shouldn't it be patchy, to emphasize the theme of decay?

This means the information available to admissions tutors will be patchy and, for some applicants, greatly reduced.

Surveys about attitudes to marriage are patchy and subject to a lot of reservations.

But access to these opportunities from place to place is patchy," Tonya Matthews, president and CEO of the Michigan Science Center, said in a press release. .

While creative approaches to policing prostitution, such as in Liverpool, can have striking results, the national response, according to Kinnell, is "patchy at best".