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Pretty near

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

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ExampleMeaning
So that's pretty near my life story.
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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.

ExampleMeaning
... like I could do other stuff but I was just as worried about that. ... I didn't know what would happen there. ... But anyway ah, that's pretty well, I-guess, up until now. I've been in here for- ah- well I came in in nineteen-eighty-two.
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... TERRA changed me a lot because bef-- before high-school I had my pretty tight knit group of friends. ... Ah, most of my friends that I grew up with like in grade-eight and-stuff-like-that, but TERRA because you're pretty well secluded from everybody for an entire semester, like my friends group changed- ...
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Speaker: Oh, it would be the atypical high-school groups. You got your preps, you got your geeks, you got your nerds, your jocks, yeah, like- Interviewer: That scene in Mean-Girls (laughs). Speaker: Yeah pretty well- Interviewer: The tables and- Speaker: Pretty well, yeah. Interviewer: Oh that's terrible.
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Speaker: And there are the jocks that all play hockey and fool around and- ... And there's the little Catholic girls that all sit- ... Over in one corner and yeah- Interviewer: It's like their assigned seats. Speaker: Yeah, pretty well, yeah-
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Interviewer: So you were raised in Cobalt though? Speaker: Ah, I lived my first year and a half in North-Cobalt and then moved here in like ninety-four. Now we live in- in this trailer my whole life. Pretty well.
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Speaker: Everyone's related. Interviewer: It's just like all family. Speaker: Pretty well. It's just all my cousins and- ... So, it was just small- it was just still really small.
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Interviewer: Is the drama here worse than Liskeard? ... Speaker: No like you have- there's like two groups of people basically it's just like- like stoners downtown pretty well-
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Speaker: I drank way before Peter ever did. Interviewer: For a while you and Peter were like inseparable and you- whenever I saw you guys, you were drunk. Speaker: Yeah, pretty well.
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Yeah you just mess around all the time. That's why I jedi'd pretty well. That's the only reason why I wanted to.
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ExampleMeaning
I do part of Arthur's job, I can do part of Brandy's job which is you-know part of the invoicing. Um, Arthur does the ah quoting and-all-that. I can do the graphics. Ah, I do some of the binda-- I-mean, you name it, I can pretty well do it in here.
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I-mean the water's pretty well polluted down there anyways ...
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ExampleMeaning
It was there when I started. It had already began when I started to play and it ended- I think it pretty well died out in the early eighties, yeah. Yeah.
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Now as we wanted- we had like a little fridge that we put the ice in- in the kitchen when you want to keep- well you pretty well had to keep your milk and cream and-everything from going sour.
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Speaker: They were just kids (laughs). ... Got into mischief and- Interviewer: Yeah? Speaker: What-have-you. Oh they're- oh, pretty well. My boys were very hockey-minded and- ... Good job there was two boys. You-know, been easier- you-know better than having a boy and a girl.
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It- as you got older and ah, there seemed to be a lot more jobs my day because the older gang was pretty well all gone. ... And ah- as each person got a little older, they went out to work. ... They weren't going to stay in the farm and work for nothing.
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Because there isn't that much work. ... There's not many jobs available. ... Y-- you'd pretty well have to go some place- ... Bigger cities.
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Pretty well everyone went up to Kirkland to buy their wedding dresses, several shops there.
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Interviewer: And ah, was there any particular games that they liked to play? Speaker: Mm, they pretty well used themselves.
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Mm-hm, yeah it was just the one cow to milk, so it wasn't a big- big thing, but it had to done. Henry pretty well milked the cow, but when he was away- ... Or late coming home from work or working over time or-something- well I milked it.
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