(I'm the first to admit that there is a certain patchiness to the collection.    From Wordnik.com.  [Giving Writers a Chance] Reference

Now, that kind of patchiness could reflect horizontal heat transport as wella s vertical, but it MUST have involved oceanic transport, not simply sea-air transport.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Coming Katrina Anniversary « Climate Audit] Reference

What seems to be emerging is that heterogeneity, or "patchiness", and diversity is very much more important to nature than an ecologically correct apartheid between "exotics" and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference

This patchiness caters to the majority of wildlife that need all age classes to meet their needs.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States] Reference

The patchiness and brown color of many of the marshes are a sign that they are breaking up and dying.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bill Chameides: Gulf Oil Blowout and Gusher: Environmental Catastrophe or Much Ado About Nothing?] Reference

Ivory Coast's patchiness must be galling to tournament organisers who hoped to see an impressive African line-up.    From Wordnik.com.  [World Cup 2010: Brazil beat Ivory Coast with Luís Fabiano's helping hand] Reference

This split helps explain the patchiness of the recovery that appears to be taking hold after the worst recession in a half-century.    From Wordnik.com.  [Halting Recovery Divides America in Two] Reference

The difficulties involved in any historical reconstruction are made still greater by the patchiness and incongruity of the evidence.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Exchange on 'Black Athena'] Reference

On a smaller scale, disturbances associated with heuweltjies (ancient termitaria) maintain habitat heterogeneity and patchiness within the landscape.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nama Karoo] Reference

Structure, patchiness, edge, size, special features, and other organisms are some of the factors that animals “consider” when choosing a habitat.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States] Reference

The size of the experiments (2m x 2m?) may have been too small to allow for spatial heterogeneity and patchiness, which may be an important factor in real ecosystems.    From Wordnik.com.  [hughstimson.org » Blog Archive » Insightful Analysis: Naeem et al’s Box-Ecosystems and Diversity] Reference

Africa, or the role which he has played in the understanding of the phenomenon of human culture and society, even in spite of the frequent patchiness of his scholarship?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wole Soyinka - Nobel Lecture] Reference

A LANDSAT MSS-derived fire history of Kakadu National Park, monsoonal northern Australia, 1980-1994: Seasonal extent, frequency and patchiness, Journal of Applied Ecology, 34.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kakadu National Park, Australia] Reference

There are moments of patchiness and moments of repetition.    From Wordnik.com.  [All articles at Blogcritics] Reference

It lost its patchiness and settled to a pleasant, warming drift.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Heart of Unaga] Reference

Amesoeurs 'is not a consistent album; the occasional patchiness of'.    From Wordnik.com.  [All Updates @ Ultimate-Guitar.Com] Reference

Wall Street, despite worries about the patchiness of the global recovery.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to South Korea offers face-saving aid plan] Reference

Pre-Columbian agricultural landscapes, ecosystem engineers, and self-organized patchiness in Amazonia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Resilience Science] Reference

Pre-Columbian agricultural landscapes, ecosystem engineers, and self-organized patchiness in Amazonia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Discover Blogs] Reference

Biomass, production and horizontal patchiness of sea ice algae in a high-Arctic fjord (Young Sound, NE Greenland).    From Wordnik.com.  [Featured Articles - Encyclopedia of Earth] Reference

And herein the weirdness of his natural vocabulary and the patchiness of his reading were of very real value to him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yet Again] Reference

What is less fathomable is the continuing patchiness of the response from the authorities and the general lack of coordination.    From Wordnik.com.  [Crossroads Arabia] Reference

Reductions were to be made for elevation above the sea, steepness, exposure to bad winds, patchiness of soil, bad fences, and bad roads.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry] Reference

With that said, a 100 percent view shows that line edges start looking ragged and dark areas show a messy patchiness almost immediately.    From Wordnik.com.  [DigitalCameraReview.com Digital Camera News and Reviews] Reference

The slow arias are less impressive, serving to reveal the patchiness of her vocal tone, but the instrumental playing by Il Giardino Armonico is first-rate.    From Wordnik.com.  [SFGate: Top News Stories] Reference

By contrast, Lisandro López is in theory at the centre of a 4-3-3 but in reality he is often isolated, and that is a cause and effect of Lyon's patchiness this season.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

"This suggests Australian labour demand remained reasonably solid in the latter months of 2010 in spite of some patchiness in a number of sectors of the economy," Mr Calhoun said.    From Wordnik.com.  [NEWS.com.au | Top Stories] Reference

A paper which presumes to fill in the patchiness of others.    From Wordnik.com.  [Discover Blogs] Reference

The patchiness is purely cosmetic and not the result of disease.”.    From Wordnik.com.  ["McLean Park wicket is excellent"] Reference

The patchiness of the glaze doesn’t work against the overall design as much in this tile.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kater’s Art » Blog Archive » Eight of Cups] Reference

I don’t like the patchiness, and I don’t like that you can see the texture from the canvas (from when they were rolled on the slab roller).    From Wordnik.com.  [Kater’s Art » Blog Archive » Queen of Swords] Reference

We've been a bit patchy so if we can take that patchiness and turn it into some good cricket then whatever happens. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Sportal.com.au - Latest News Headlines] Reference

This split helps explain the patchiness of the recovery that appears to be taking hold after the worst recession in a half-century ... ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Big Picture] Reference

Patches and patchiness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ecology (collection)] Reference

The patchiness of the setting.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Worlds of D&D: Forgotten Realms] Reference

patchiness of, 23, 25, 293.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States] Reference

patchiness, of habitats, 23, 25, 293.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States] Reference

"cakey" or "patchiness" that I referred to.    From Wordnik.com.  [ReadABlog.com New Blogs and RSS Feeds] Reference