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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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Speaker: Oh yes, we had a garden with carrots and parsnips and cabbage. But no, we didn't have turnips every day (laughs). ... but ah we eat pretty well at th-- those what they called the thirties, there wasn't very much money. Nobody'd money. And most things were made at home. Garden. We killed our own meat.
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So the first three nurses pretty well stayed about a year each and then there was some that would stay two and sometimes there'd be three.
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And- and we got permission from the sons to put the pictures in and to put titles on. I wrote the titles for pretty well- that- there she is, yes.
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Well he was old. ... He couldn't ah keep it up. But he h-- always kept one cow pretty well you-know to the last- but he never milked it.
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Well I played in the Sunday school in kindergarten. I never got out of kindergarten. Ah, all the- pretty well all the time my kids were going and now we don't even have a kindergarten- or a Sunday school. No kids go, just old people like me (laughs).
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It- it leaks now terribly. But it was a- our neighbour told my son that it was the first barn built ah, here ah, that had a steel roof on it.... And it's pretty well the original roof I-think (laughs). So it was built about nineteen-hundred.
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And at midnight they would have a big meal at midnight. ... there would be sandwiches and all the sweets you would want, pickles. Every meal in the county pretty well- the old timers had pickles at every meal. You always had a pickle with meal.
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Speaker: Well (inc) just a very special friend but she loves to hear- ... Her people are pretty well all gone, so- ... She loves to come listen to us old people, eh?
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There was an orange lodge here, there was one in West-Guilford, there was one in Canarvon and there was one- pretty well in every area, there was an orange lodge.
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I worked in construction. All my life, pretty well. I run a crane and-stuff-like-that.
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They found her, she was out in the grain-field, she'd followed the binder wheel around and Johnny-Calendar found her. She laying dead. She'd pretty well bloated up.
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They lived down the road and George was like a member of our family you-know. He's- he's same age as Lyle. And he was there all the time, he lived there pretty well. We'd go set the table, you-know we'd always set a ta-- place for George too. But ah, we had this bull in the barnyard. B-- in the barn. Big Herford bull.
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We cut off a pile of- and then I come home, I hadn't been home all winter, stayed at McBride's pretty well. And then I come home the first of March. And the second day of March it snowed four feet.
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Every year we- we'd (inc) deer, and in fact most of the time I shot i-- well I didn't shoot them but the guy I hunted with, he didn't keep his, so we always had two of them pretty well for the winter, which was good to- good food and-that.
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oAnd then the next time was when we, at the end of the school year, we would start to weed it and hill the potatoes- we didn't grow potatoes, but hill the corn and all-that-stuff. And then that was pretty well it for the year except just pick stuff after that.
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The b-- the nurse you-know, the girl that does the checks and-everything 'cause then your- your body- your- no water fluid build up, your eyes are not swollen. If you let that get ahead of you- and I weigh myself pretty well every morning.
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So they take the- all the calls and then they just- similar, they pick up a phone and it pages us out through a phone, interconnect at the tower but it's a lot- covers- you can get the page at Kenise now and anywhere you are, pretty well.
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Interviewer: Do you remember people still using horses? Speaker: Yes. We had horses- ... On the farm. And the horses ah, pretty well went out in nineteen-fifty-four.
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Speaker: There was a lot of children you know, lived in Donald- Interviewer: Is that right? Speaker: Pretty well, there was, ah- let me see, there was ei-- ov-- eigthy-five men worked there and there was about thirty some more ah, children in the village.
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Interviewer: And in what kinds of things would go- would you do on the farm? Speaker: Oh gosh. Lila you can jump in there. Speaker 2: Well you just think, think- Speaker: We lived off- we lived off the farm for- Speaker 2: Yeah. Speaker: Pretty well.
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