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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: 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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Yup, like Bobcaygeon now is pretty well all retired people in the city so it's- it's a senior's community pretty- pretty well I guess.
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I've lived here pretty well all my life so I pretty well know a lot things like a lot of other people don't know but.
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... and they used to go to Peterborough ev-- pretty well every Thursday night to these meetings ...
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Interviewer: 'Cause you said you really liked elementary school. Speaker: Yeah I did. I think the school's you-know probably pretty well the same. It's you-know improved if nothing else. It's definitely not worse.
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And ah so we've lived here ever since Holly was one and she was born in seventy-two so- yeah yeah so we've- we've pretty well like raised the kids here. John built this house, like he- he built it all by himself and ah yeah.
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... like there has been tourists that want to go up and see the place and-everything. It's ripped down. It's no longer there. They ripped it down. Like they got rid of it. ... And um, all it was a little cabin in the woods. Like that's pretty well all it was.
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'Cause they're brain washed so they won't talk. ... And nobody knew that's- like they knew something was weird. There's a bunch of girls living with- you-know pretty well one guy.
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There was three of them, two of us. Pretty well two of them because they were all older yeah. So two of them and three then three of them. So there was ten.
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Second year we had same deal, it was pretty well the same team. We came in runner-up and then this year coming, it's gonna be a whole different team because people work and can't come up and st-- and you-know stopped coming because they get older.
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Um yeah and we've ah- how it has changed, we've lost our saw-mills and like where the men pretty-well all worked around like here, they didn't have to go out of town like to work. And there was ah a quarry here too. And like it's gone so yeah.
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And ah my kids pretty well ah- like the younger ones went to the school over here.
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Oh yeah there was the- the big fire yeah that burnt. Yeah it burned us, I forgot about that store and ah some houses yeah. But I think everybody pretty well you-know had- got somewhere else to live so. Yes.
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And um in the city I feel that people like tend to fall through the cracks and that- like you-know here you-know things are closer like pretty well if you live in Lindsay you can walk anywhere you-know to get to where ever you need to go if you- if you have to you know and-that.
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It was a good book, she's a good writer. Like I really like her- Catherine-Cookson. Like her books too and ah- oh yeah lots of different ones. I pretty well read anything ...
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