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Pretty near

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

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ExampleMeaning
That's a-hundred-and-seventy- so yeah, a-hundred-and-seventy-five dollars, eh? That's about pretty near third of a year's wages (laughs). So it was good money.
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Ah, I put in pretty near s-- I quit the post and ah quit the mowing of the roads too. I used to mow the county roads here.
Almost
ExampleMeaning
Meanwhile, the father of these kids was in a car accident. Pretty near killed himself near Ottawa.
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Wednesday, Thursday, Friday is all kid's days eh, buses trucking them in. Twelve- fifteen-hundred kids everyday pretty near. Not adult. And then, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, it's open to the public, eh?
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Booking you from now for then. September Vankleek-Hill-Fair, we go down there for two days, way down in oh it's what pretty near two hours to get there. To clip, what? Eight sheep- five or six sheep everyday.
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There's traffic here, twenty-four hours a day pretty near.
Almost
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And by the time he got to the last place, it would be pretty near melted down (laughs).
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ExampleMeaning
Tea leaves pretty near killed me.
Almost
ExampleMeaning
And he just- his eyes pretty near come out from the other side of the street.
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I got hit on the head with a big hard apple. And I pretty near down- went down.
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Well, ah, even- even when (inc) were- were pretty nearly just- just as they always were.
Almost
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Interviewer: So that's the one you almost stepped on? Speeaker:Pretty near stepped on him, yeah.
Almost
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No, but I remember the black spaniel dog. It was pretty near a full week that dog was gone before she come back.
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The eraser went flying out. (laughs) I think the old music teacherpretty near hit the floor.
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So if you shipped them like that they'd give you pretty near nothing for it.
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