When it emerges, it's patchy and streaky and my knees are two satsumas.
This dust-driven cooling, though, is patchy—and in some places it may not even be helpful.
As the interface follows the solidification front of the shell metal, the areas of soft core metal showing at the barrel surface, will be patchy and not continuous.
The fossil evidence for the next 190, 000 years is patchy, but shows that humans remained tall and robust until about 10, 000 years ago when many populations show reduced stature and brain size.
The translation is patchy in places too.
The data on these differences are patchy, the study’s authors acknowledge.
Its success outside America has been patchy: just 9% of its subscribers in London have ever bought anything from it.
Those mighty winds pulled in a band of cloud and some patchy rain through the small hours, and into the first part of the morning.
Diagnosis: Sarcoidosis, with patchy lung involvement.
Although the FCPA was enacted in 1977, enforcement was patchy until recently.
At the progressive stage, X-ray manifestations showed "white lung" in 3 cases, "frosted glass" in 1 case and "frosted glass" with patchy infiltration in 3 cases.
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.
For years America was the only country that took this seriously, and even its record was patchy.
The nodules are scattered and patchy in distribution, and predominate posteriorly and in the upper lobes. The nodules show symmetrical involvement (Figure 2, Figure 3) of both upper lobes.
The uptake of biotechnologies in developing countries is increasing gradually but remains patchy.
The coverage of tidal gauges is patchy. Most are in coastal waters, so the high seas are poorly measured. The majority are in the northern hemisphere. Few are near the poles.
As Inmans view through the window solidified, the dark trunks of the oak trees showed themselves first, then the patchy lawn, and finally the red road.
Typical findings include patchy ground-glass opacity (80%) and small ill-defined centrilobular nodules of ground-glass opacity (80%).
Admittedly, none of these men is perfect: Mr. Fischer, for instance, is too old under existing rules and had a patchy record as deputy head of the fund.
Public services are patchy but improving, as is infrastructure.
The signs of improvement are patchy, however.
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