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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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But yet they couldn't get out of the elevator so moisture pretty well but still it dries out some.
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Interviewer: What about ah adults, not- say from thirty to sixty? What- what were their preferences? Speaker: Oh the same, pretty well. But I- I wish I could remember the names but I can't at the minute, of some of the ah more popular books.
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The depression was the hard place. See I started in depression, in- in thirty-three. And it didn't clear up 'til pretty well up towards forty. And ah it was grim going but it- we still had fun.
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Ah so we- Belleville has continuously, and it runs hot and cold eh, it pretty well continuously had a civil defence organization.
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Interviewer: What subjects did you take in the school? Speaker: I can pretty well tell you what subjects you took: Reading, Writing and Arithmetic.
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It was quite strong conservative alright in that- stronger than the others pretty well.
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And now I think it was pretty well out of debt or didn't have any debt on to it.
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Our business is built on English china pretty well you-know. And now we're into the jewellery business.
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But it was always easy to dry up a cow if you didn't feed hers take the feed away from her, pretty well, and she'd soon dry up.
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Harry-Conors, he had four or five horses there, so their horses, they used to have to stand in the shed we had up there, it was pretty well closed in; there was a sliding door onto it.
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... well you'd have to ah- sort of ah lay out the- the boards so that the ah- the grain in them would match, you-know because they were stained you-see you'd try to get a board that was matched pretty well with the stain and then ah you'd have to lay that out too you-know see, like that, so that when it didn't look so bad for a joint when you had to make a joint you-know right?
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Suppose it had to expand to get the services really in a way but ah- ah the funny part of it was that um ah- ah when it was taken over by the city a lot of t was built up or st-- or pretty well built ah before the city ever took it over, see? It was. And of course they've been filling in the pieces here and there since see. ... It's- there's- Wright-Avenue and this part here was pretty well filled up when they took it over- the city took it over- that time it was- it was filled wi-- with housing.
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And one thing he done, this teacher- he's great with arithmetic alright. About ten minutes to twelve. About to be pretty well done, everybody put their books away and he'd give out mental arithmetic. He had addition on the- on the side seats.
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Interviewer: I felt they were done a lot of these- these contests? Speaker: Every Friday pretty well. Interviewer: And you could have a good time while you were getting drilled with your basics? Speaker: Oh yes.
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It was one of the old-fashioned Fords. And ah- (laughs) we got so that we could do it very nicely! He could be- do the foot part of it and I did the hand part and we got so we could work together pretty well (laughs)!
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Interviewer: What would he sell at the market? Speaker: Well, I guess he'd sell pretty well what the market- (bells ringing) they'd sell, all kinds of vegetables and principle vegetables that you sell on the market.
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And ah things were pretty- during the war everybody was working pretty well. Insurance was in quite demand then too.
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Interviewer: How has the church changed in the years that you've been there? Speaker: How has it changed you say? Well, in early days the church was a community-centre pretty well.
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They, ah- they did have stump pullers, at one time, but, ah, they were only good for a small stump, a great big tree, they just had to build a fire around it and burn and after it got pretty well burnt then they could go at it and chop it up and- and-
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... he made a- a good salary yet the season for his work was short. Like, he didn't work from November 'til maybe in March. He'd, ah- December and January and February- ... Pretty well are, you-know, no work because- ... In those days they couldn't lay a brick in the wintertime, not like it is now because-
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