Sentence examples for work patchily from inspiring English sources

He says that the low-energy component of BLE is a significant part of the attraction of the technology: services like GPS-based location technology not only are less accurate in terms of location granularity, but those and other wide-area wireless signals tend to work patchily in stores, and they are also drain the batteries.

Interbank transfers are an unwise act of faith; credit cards work only patchily; there are periodic, unexplained shortages of roubles, and an even weirder exchange rate for them.

One of Libya's two mobile-phone networks is defunct and the other works only patchily.

Its buildings are intact, its vast transport network is creaking back to life, cellphones are working again – patchily.

Adding to the problems, telephones and the internet have worked only patchily if at all.The specialised rescue teams that flooded into Haiti in record numbers managed to extract more than 120 people from the ruins.

The evidence from recent reports is that the Music Education Hubs are working only patchily (precisely the issue they were established to resolve), and there's a question mark about what happens after April 2015, when the first round of money pledged needs to be replenished, at what everyone expects will be a lower level.

The new advisory group will draw on private sector and academic work, but this only patchily covers some areas of government policy interest.

The study population occurs patchily in swamps on the Barrington Plateau.

Schools have improved, albeit patchily.

Patchily distributed habitats that encourage population concentration?

It's a tremendous play – but patchily executed.