Sentence examples for was still patchy from inspiring English sources

But the output of chips and other electronic parts fell 0.6 percent, a sign that the recovery was still patchy.

The months of relative calm after the chaos of the invasion had ended, but the violence was still patchy and we were not sure what shape it would take.

The Swede – who scored 35 times for Milan in 1949-50, and then 34 times the following season – belonged to a distant footballing era, back when professionalism was still patchy and the sport picking itself up after the second world war.

The information was still patchy, but witnesses said that a group of pirates had recently arrived with a female hostage in a notorious pirate den hundreds of miles inside Somalia, showing that Somalia's pirates have the reach and ambition to attack on land, and also inside Kenya.

Last month he told the BBC the system had improved but was still "patchy".

Likewise for Cases Two and Three, despite the existence of a powerful electronic record, information flow was still patchy and heavily reliant on people's management practices to coordinate care.

In poor countries, internet use is still patchy.

But content in the world's fifth-most-spoken tongue is still patchy, as is quality.

However, improvements are still patchy not just within London but across the UK.

Electricity is still patchy, not only in Baghdad, but also in Basra and other centers.

Trade in services has been getting freer, although many countries' WTO commitments are still patchy.