| The self-conscious lantern-lecture aspect just about offsets the psychological patchiness and occasional obviousness. |
| A diel study of the population in October indicated that the patchiness of population also changed dramatically between day and night. |
| That seems to be more likely to occur in a system with many levels of patchiness. |
| But the patchiness of tenure has also given rise to a tribe of nomadic professors, desperately seeking the next short-term contract. |
| April's patchiness means that the good rainfall Aprils are the now-and-again events. |
| Officials claim the problem has become less rampant. Given the patchiness of official data, this is hard to prove. |
