They aren't uniform, actually, because their patterns of growth differ, but they do run pretty true to form.

Even then, the pattern of variation for this gene differs between the two populations.

Taking a less detailed view, the patterns of discovery do not differ greatly.

Second, the pattern of disability differs between institutions and private households.

The number, type, diameter, color, and pattern of the balls differ depending upon the specific game being played.

Although this pattern differs from one specimen to the next, the general effect is pretty much the same in all.

However, once again the pattern of expenditure on housing does not differ that much between the rich and the poor.

This pattern differs only by degree in different metropolitan areas.

Derivational patterns differ in the degree to which they can be called productive.

But there's another question: why do individual ageing patterns differ so greatly?