pretty well

adverb, informal, almost, very nearly (“pretty” COD)

“My mother, she could milk pretty well two cows for one that Dad would milk, ’cause she was really fast.”

“My father and mother were on a farm, which everyone was pretty well at that time.”

“You can pretty well tell when people come through the door at the Information Centre if they’re American or Canadian, but I’m not sure just why. There definitely is a difference.”

“Mother used to can and jar, and we had the potato bins, and we were pretty well self-sufficient.”

“Growing up on the farm, we always had a team of horses pretty well, eh? And I was the one that got to drive them most of the time.”

“Everybody more or less stuck pretty well close together, like, eh.

“He stayed right on there, I guess, pretty well. Didn’t he?”

“The old dock’s still down there, but it’s pretty well done for, you know.”

“They burnt them all, everywhere the same, pretty well.”

“I have pictures of all the churches and everything. I take a lot of pictures. I think I’ve taken everything pretty well on the Island that there is to take.”

“They pretty near went every day, and anybody was pretty well welcome to ride with them over and back if they wanted to go, but if you’re riding with somebody else, you go when they want and come back when they come.”

“She loves St. Catharines. It’s a beautiful city.”
“Yeah, he likes it. He’s pretty well climatized. They rent a house up there.”

“Back in those days pretty well all the farms were hundred acres say, and that’s all you could work.”

“We used to have quite a big garden. That was your winter’s food pretty well, potatoes, carrots and whatever else you could save for the winter.”

“Did you plow with horses every year?
“Yeah. Yeah. Pretty well.”

“She was a widow then, and I think the family had all moved away too, pretty well, eh.”

“Pretty well every farm had their own minor machinery and whatever.”

“Did you know people on each of the islands or did you just visit?”
“No, pretty well just visited, I guess.”

“He phoned, and he had all the pictures pretty well he needed, but he wanted to get a horse and cutter.”