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pretty well

Parf of speech: Adverb, OED Year: 1576, OED Evaluation: N/A

in a satisfactory way; to a considerable extent, largely.

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Interviewer: Did you make any good friends during that time or? Speaker: Oh yeah, everybody pretty well is- you guys are friend.
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Interviewer: Yeah, what kind-of music and-stuff were at the dances? <051> Well, we were pretty well- ah back in the country. We were pretty well inter-- interested in square-dancing. Yeah. And uh- and the waltzes and-stuff-like-that. But ah- I- you- that stuff they do now a days I wouldn't do it. I'd break my neck.
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Interviewer: Was it always like local bands and-stuff or? Speaker: Oh pretty well yeah yeah.
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Well I used to help a bit. I don't help out now. Help out when my wife- she was in - pretty well in charge of the snacks (inc) it was her that got the- the new one built and- and she was pretty good at the bingo games we had too. Kind-of looked after them a bit so-
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Interviewer: Is that what people did? They just went to go see the train or? Speaker: Oh pretty well. And they'd visit a bit- well they- they might get a bit of knowledge or bit of B-S floating around.
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Well just- just the people who- in the village they more or less just had to sit and watch it burn for no fire trucks or- and the train came down- ca-- came back down and they used the fire-hose from it to try to put some-- but it was pretty well all burnt then.
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Interviewer: So fire was a big problem (inc) I guess. Speaker: Yeah- yeah like there was no such thing as fire protection then. If- if a guy's house burnt down they just built it again. Interviewer: Did the community really come together or-something-like-that (inc) Speaker: Pretty well yeah. And the saying in those days used to be building barns eh? They'd have a big- all people from miles around came to- for this barn raising eh, it was a big day.
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Interviewer: Has it always been this like quiet and peaceful and? Speaker: Well pretty well. Well when the- they used to have a saw-mill over there and a saw-mill down here.
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Well just the shortage of timber. Yeah. And it wasn't economical to cut logs and they would put any half-decent logs were pretty well all cut by then.
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My aunt Beverly of Treleven from Toronto she was very active in the Presbyterian church, and she pretty well ran ah Quinmilak, the- the camp, and ah so I would always go to camp with her and it was C-G-I-T. Mm-hm. Canadian-Girls-In-Training.
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Ah no they- ah they've always been really open with us which is great. They tell us pretty well everything that's going on, especially Karen's, the other two we don't ah I think that comes from a broken home too.
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And ah, it- it was tough for a single lady raising three kids. Especially, we weren't very hard to- to raise- we were very- into everything. We got into more trouble ah- and actually we pretty well raised ourselves because mom was busy working just to make a living ...
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... and what happens is ah if people eat certain parts of- of- of a cow that had B-S-E, they would get sick and they would probably die. So that pretty well shut down the market for cattle. And everybody that was in farming for the last three or four years, they had a very tough time trying to make a living because the prices of your animals went down almost a half.
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You just had to make sure that none of the buildings around it went up in flames too kind-of-thing. But that was been the most case with any fires you went to. They're pretty well fully engulfed by the time you get there.
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Interviewer: When did you try and fight the system? Speaker: Um pretty well the whole time I was in high-school. Yeah. ... I think um I think I picked the wrong- wrong way to try and fit in.
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The next one too it where Stewarts live, we've done resuscitation calls there and we've done resuscitat-- or resuscitation next door all um because of the fire-department but all different people that have been there eh. So we've done pretty well everybody on the street, one time or other.
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Yeah, it's the Lindsay home-coming. It- it's been on now I-guess pretty well all month I guess but they're gonna wrap it up I-guess ah this weekend. I think so.
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Interviewer: ... about your gardens? Is it like vegetables or flowers or? Speaker: Yup. We have vegetables and we have flowers. Both of us try to keep the flower beds going but that's pretty near impossible around here for the weeds. Ah vegetable garden right now, it's at its peak. I guess pretty well. Potatoes- my potatoes are about this high and my tomatoes are about this high and I said the zucchinis are- some big zucchinis out there right now. The peas are all gone.
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Summertime a lot of the girls and a lot of the guys they got jobs out and around town somewhere or outside of town. So they're gonna pretty well all summer but in the winter time, we had to find something to do so we- that's all we used- used to do is- we used to go around there- Christmas-Eve singing Christmas-carols.
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Interviewer: Like do you think a lot of people come here to golf or? Speaker: Well- take the little one in- in Fenelon there which is a small golf course- only nine holes- it's pretty- pretty small and um, it's crowded pretty well all the time. Which is good. Then you get some place like Alder's-Nest which is more challenging and the Lindsay-Golf-Course which is really challenging and there's a lot of golfers there too.
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