Example sentences of "pretty much " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Pretty much , ’ she said instead . |
| 2 | ‘ No , I do n't think so , ’ she said , ‘ I think I 'm pretty much in the English Christian Socialist tradition , you know . ’ |
| 3 | Later on in the article he repeats this ; ie. ‘ not only does the tenon need to be pretty much where it needs to be relative to the thickness of the wood . ’ |
| 4 | We were pretty much trying to emulate a lot of the early black blues sound . |
| 5 | In the Florence of the 1420s , says Michael Veseth , an American professor of economics , he would have been ‘ pretty much at home ’ with the institutions dealing with business and government finance . |
| 6 | It was , though , a gesture that was pretty much in character , for he never lacked confidence from the moment he scored 156 in his first county match for Sussex . |
| 7 | He 's a well-scrubbed type who looks pretty much like the Guardian book reviewer he is neatly dressed with a sensible fringe . |
| 8 | No , he 's pretty much of a jerk in his personal dealings ’ . |
| 9 | As the man behind the camera on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles , Barron now has Hollywood pretty much at his beck and call . |
| 10 | ‘ We 're left pretty much to ourselves . |
| 11 | As much to the point as the previous accuracy of polling is the fact that the polls were pretty much spot on in 1979 , 1983 and 1987 at the moment the election was called . |
| 12 | The carriage was pretty much full now . |
| 13 | Now , it happens pretty much round the clock . |
| 14 | I was shattered pretty much of the time , my sleep was interrupted and I forgot about everything else . |
| 15 | Jim was more apt to consider that with both farms pretty much under control there really was n't much else to do ! |
| 16 | Dr Teller did n't claim there was much sign of that happening now but he thought it could , an act of faith pretty much , one thought , unsupported by history . |
| 17 | I was pretty much out of touch with LA musicians ; I 'm not a ‘ socialite ’ like Mick Fleetwood . |
| 18 | On testing , the 2x10 holds a well-defined , fairly upper-mid biased sound ( pretty much as you would expect ) performing with commendable consistency even when hammered with the low ‘ B ’ of a 5-string bass ( though some discretionary compression is no bad thing at such volumes ) . |
| 19 | Generally , old blue 's sounds are pretty much conventional modern Fender Strat . |
| 20 | It 's basically two different Fender preamps and a Marshall preamp in one box , which pretty much covers everything ! |
| 21 | So even though we have a lot of tricky stuff to get right soundwise , the crew is so great that they can do it pretty much without us . |
| 22 | If you 've got the ears to know what sounds good you 're going to be pretty much alright . ’ |
| 23 | Interestingly , this setting also works for a complete mix , affecting mainly the percussive sounds but leaving the overall feel pretty much unchanged . |
| 24 | The fact that I might choose to play something pretty much as a rhythm part one night will suggest something musically to these guys . |
| 25 | I designed it pretty much around the idea that it could be used in the studio and on the road . |
| 26 | Finally , in 1968 , Gibson reintroduced the original black single-cutaway guitars — this time with humbuckers and maple tops , although a more original reissue came out in 1973 — and they 've remained in production pretty much ever since . |
| 27 | My initial impression , on seeing this guitar for the first time , was that Rockwood have tried very hard to steer away from total Strat clone , whilst keeping all the essential ingredients pretty much to the fore . |
| 28 | The Queen harmony vocal idea was pretty much fully developed even on your first album , and it seems like the most significant developments since have been on the part of technology catching up . |
| 29 | ‘ I was working at the store and I was pretty much going nowhere , from eleven to fifteen . |
| 30 | ‘ I had the guitar built pretty much like a Strat body . |