adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
extremely/highly/fairly etc flexible
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Our new computer software is extremely flexible.
fairly certain
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Opposition to the changes is fairly certain.
fairly/pretty normal
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His family all seem pretty normal.
fairly/quite obvious ( also pretty obvious spoken )
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There are some fairly obvious signs of a poor diet.
fairly/reasonably accurate
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Police believe Derek gave a reasonably accurate account of what happened.
fairly/reasonably comprehensive
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The available data on world population is reasonably comprehensive.
fairly/unfairly
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I just want to be treated fairly.
pretty/fairly useless
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The book is pretty useless for today's students.
quite/fairly expensive
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The food’s quite expensive, but it’s really nice.
quite/fairly similar
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The two species are quite similar.
rather/fairly excessive
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I think £100 for a meal is rather excessive, to say the least.
rather/pretty/quite/fairly unlikely
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I may have thrown it away by mistake, but that’s pretty unlikely.
rather/somewhat/quite/fairly unusual
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The design of the house was somewhat unusual.
relatively/fairly/quite simple
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The rules are quite simple.
relatively/quite/fairly straightforward
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Installing the program is relatively straightforward.
virtually/fairly/largely meaningless
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
accurate
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One must have a fairly accurate idea of the patient's weight.
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Both newspapers gave fairly accurate accounts of what had happened the night before last.
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After a while it grew apparent that Tara's verdict on Guy was fairly accurate .
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As a result the accounts produced will tend to reflect a fairly accurate view of the profitability of the business.
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Linear, scientific perspective allows for a fairly accurate mental reconstruction of the distances separating objects.
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Quality of the written report: A fairly accurate picture, but raised no new, major issues.
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The estimate of three revolutions for three overflow records will thus be fairly accurate in this case.
certain
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Though afterwards she was fairly certain that Naylor had always meant to reject her anyway.
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They were fairly certain he was immune; certain enough to consider it worth the risk, at any rate.
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At least when face-to-face contact is made you are fairly certain that the message gets through.
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Of one thing I am fairly certain , namely that the glassfibre Seayak will carve through waves better.
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However, we are fairly certain of some features that such a unified theory should have.
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But something that is by definition inefficient is fairly certain also to be undignified.
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He was fairly certain she had no idea of how gentle he had been, how thoughtful.
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He was fairly certain now that he was walking into a trap, and wished he'd come armed.
clear
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Conclusions: There is a fairly clear trend in all bands, apart from the oldest plants.
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They are more open as to style and time deadlines, but still have fairly clear purposes and objectives for their organization.
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On this point, the evidence seems fairly clear .
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In terms of physical diseases, this ambiguity is fairly clear .
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By that time, the patterns of usage - still being developed as far as mathematics is concerned - will have become fairly clear .
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Some of the plantations up north near Tay Ninh were in operation and were fairly clear of underbrush.
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The reefs in deep water off Devon and Cornwall are fairly clear and have given steady sport.
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It seems fairly clear that it is possible to make this argument in a convincing way.
close
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I've had a fairly close watch kept on me.
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The hostel was fairly close to town and no-one could complain about the prices.
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There's a great wooded area fairly close to the town - including the wonderfully named Tolpuddle Hollow and Puddletown Heath.
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The end of this breakwater only becomes clear when fairly close , but otherwise the approaches to the main port are simple.
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He himself had other plans, although for the moment he was keeping them fairly close to his chest.
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Even better, Mala was being fairly close to friendly towards me, making her very good company.
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There is therefore a fairly close correlation between the owning and trading memberships.
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We moved out of the flat a few weeks after and found a house fairly close to Kate and Alison's.
constant
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Over the same period university expenditure, where more research is undertaken, was fairly constant at about £5,200 per student.
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Self-control and maturity are necessary for success as a pro athlete, because athletic ability is fairly constant at this level.
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Dempster represents the biter-bit brigade, being a fairly constant topic whenever journos gather together.
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Everyone was in a fairly constant state of edgy anticipation and nervousness throughout the tour.
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Without fairly constant monitoring it will be hard to tell.
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The overall success rate has remained fairly constant over the years at about one in five cases.
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The proportion not living with a partner as a part of a couple stayed fairly constant at about one in five.
easy
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Up to this stage it will have been fairly easy for them to break off their activities should the occasion demand it.
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It was a beautiful theory, and it was fairly easy to understand.
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Absolute poverty is then fairly easy to define in objective though gruesome terms.
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By the time students complete the first grade, it is fairly easy to assess students' basic academic skills.
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Cultivation is apparently fairly easy and details of where to get the plants are available.
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Fortunately, the elements are fairly easy to replace.
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Fortunately, most are still fairly easy to spot, and usually catch out only new users, but they will improve.
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If something goes haywire, it should be fairly easy to isolate the offending software.
good
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I reckon it's fairly good , what do you think of it?
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Even then these stubborn blue lines retreated in fairly good order.
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By now you should have a fairly good idea of the possible use of a book.
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Cars came by occasionally, usually at a fairly good clip.
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This allowed for fairly good availability of well selected donor organs thus more easily facilitating an urgent transplant programme.
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Job Outlook Qualified accountants and auditors are expected to have fairly good job prospects.
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If all these occur it is a fairly good indication that you should tack.
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And at times, a fairly good one.
high
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He won the national championship in one season and finished fairly high in another season.
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I thought this constituted revenge of a fairly high order, thought it all out in advance.
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The evening meal is also fairly high in fat and sugar.
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The company received fairly high marks in Clark County, where it began managing mental health services in January 1996.
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Turnover in equities was fairly high at 843m shares.
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But women are fairly high on the list.
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He was with Leeds for only 3 and 1/3 seasons but he must be fairly high in the list of all-time scorers.
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That main block is fairly high and has two levels.
large
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It grew quickly, putting six fairly large eaves on the water surface - but the Kissers ignored them.
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We had a fairly large tent city, with some improvements, within a matter of two or three days of arrival.
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This species is one of a fairly large genus that survives today.
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Two of the rooms were fairly large and, from the remaining pipes and sinks, looked to be defunct laboratories.
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Function Room fairly large , and good seating for around 100 people.
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In this case, that meant covering the considerable travel expenses for Hawking, who travels with a fairly large support group.
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I continued playing as the Brigadier sped away in his jeep, to the cheers of the fairly large crowd.
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It was a fairly large room, opening out on both sides to comfortable-sized verandahs.
low
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The idea is fairly low on the list of Government prison priorities at the moment.
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You want it fairly low , without your wrist on the table.
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Nightlife is fairly low key, and centres mainly around restaurants and bars, although there is one disco.
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This is fairly low level stuff and suffers from some poor diagrams.
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Millions of cycles are sold every year, but usage is still fairly low .
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Protection usually began at fairly low rates.
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Forestry and water A. The price, or value, of the moorlands is fairly low .
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A few of the questions yielded low or fairly low success rates even for the top third of pupils.
new
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These projects have accompanying newsletters and being fairly new ventures welcome feedback.
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Many of the ideas we have about work, including the freedom to choose any career we want, are fairly new .
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He had to be fairly new , she decided.
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We drove out to the beach where, fifty feet from the crashing waves, a fairly new bungalow stood.
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Some varieties of waterlilies are fairly new to cultivation whereas the majority of well known cultivars date back years.
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Lauri and I were fairly new in the business.
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After that it's a dirt road, but fairly new .
obvious
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I think it's fairly obvious why.
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It should be fairly obvious that the choice of air appropriate discount rate is a key decision in the capital budgeting process.
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Many of its effects are fairly obvious and generally acknowledged.
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It should be fairly obvious that the effect of an expense is to decrease owners' equity.
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The need for a high degree of safety should be fairly obvious .
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To Carol Wilson, however, it became fairly obvious that Copeland wanted to sign Sting's publishing to his own company.
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The advantages of using systematic numbering should be fairly obvious .
quiet
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August is a fairly quiet month in Shetland apart from social functions like sailing regattas.
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It's usually fairly quiet at lunchtime.
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He only hoped she would be promptly at her desk, the place fairly quiet , routine just beginning for the day.
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She had thought her birthday was going to be fairly quiet and uneventful.
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It was fairly quiet , just one or two elderly men conversing over a pint.
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Offstage he was fairly quiet , preoccupied.
recent
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Oh yeah, one more thing: Since a fairly recent accident, Linkous has limited use of his legs.
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Cultural predisposition Recognition that cultural pressures on women to diet contribute to anorexia nervosa has had a fairly recent history.
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There are three fairly recent rule changes of which you should be aware.
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Their preserved counterpart, the sun-dried cherry, is a fairly recent gourmet discovery, however.
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The castle was occupied until fairly recent times.
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The immune system is a fairly recent invention in geological terms.
regular
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Ventura is an excellent package to use if you want to create long and fairly regular documents like technical manuals or books.
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I did have one fairly regular customer though, and it was amazing how we started off.
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None the less, even in this period, the economy has been subjected to fairly regular cycles of minor expansions and recessions.
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I was able to go to Westminster for fairly regular lectures and we added anthropology to our social psychology studies.
short
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This is quite effective on clipped horses or those with fairly short coats.
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The magazine-article format keeps each of the 16 pieces fairly short and easy to read.
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I mean you're unusually tall for a driver, but most of them have to be fairly short .
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I wrote four or five fairly short stories a week.
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Other than in large championship races, windsurfers tend to use fairly short beats so their influence is decreased.
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For fairly short distances l.e.d.'s are quite satisfactory.
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This was the third time over a fairly short period.
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This is one reason to choose a fairly short key for indexed sequential use.
simple
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First, the fairly simple trick of separating two component parts of a clue by a number of pages.
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Some of the boats chiselled into the rocks are fairly simple .
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It was fairly simple to devise an educational jump-start for her.
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Voice over It's fairly simple to spot the difference between the real thing and a fake.
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It also would be fairly simple to operate, making it more likely that parents would use it.
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The operations of the mind which he describes are reduced to two fairly simple activities.
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The salmon was fairly simple , just some thinly sliced grilled fish on unremarkable toast points.
small
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The nose probably started out fairly small , like that of, say, the modern tapir.
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Sleeping specialists believe that long-term use of sleeping pills should be restricted to a fairly small group of patients.
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A fairly small course is needed with an upwind.
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Smartly kept family-run place with just fourteen fairly small but well-equipped rooms.
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It was, as Tom had said it would be, a fairly small affair.
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It was well received by a fairly small house.
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Lunch will be fairly small and might feature a salad or small sandwich with a low-fat filling, or yogurt and fruit.
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The mill originally had two sets of fairly small stones of approximately 2' diameter, which have not survived.
stable
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Monetarists argue that the demand for money is inelastic with respect to interest rates and also fairly stable over time.
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Probably, although surely there is a core of fairly stable synapses.
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This proportionate share of crime has remained fairly stable during the past decade.
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After the Second World War, the numbers received annually kept fairly stable , unlike the parallel figures for men.
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Prices of cocaine, crack and heroin were fairly stable in 1989 and 1990.
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Since then immigration has been fairly stable .
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Secondly, under a wide variety of circumstances, what we see in various situations remains fairly stable .
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The details of its internal structure varied somewhat from time to time, but the main lines remained fairly stable .
standard
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The service you get is fairly standard , with no apparent limits imposed on storage space or attachment size.
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Now fairly standard practice across the country, the employee magazine was new to us when it was suggested.
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Pitching: a fairly standard geodesic shape which is easy to erect.
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This particular specimen given was fairly standard .
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This is a fairly standard refrain.
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This was fairly standard stuff, but I deplored her tone.
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Doubtless words do sometimes have emotive effects, and some ethical words may have fairly standard such effects in certain communities.
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Many were fairly standard provisions for bad debts, and so forth.
strong
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Apply some fairly strong pressure to the lower back with the heels of your hands.
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And the cast is fairly strong .
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Other conditions: Light: Requires a fairly strong light from the top.
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Demand has been fairly strong throughout this whole bizarre episode....
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Obviously a brush and comb are essential, and these should both be of a fairly strong , sturdy design.
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Fiscally, Chicago is in a fairly strong position for an older city.
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I was involved in some fairly strong tackling and didn't feel a thing.
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That would be a fairly strong buy signal.
sure
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In these greenhouses there are seedlings which you can be fairly sure the neighbours won't have.
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I was fairly sure what had happened.
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She was fairly sure that didn't make sense, but wasn't prepared to argue.
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I was also fairly sure we would find ample evidence of their connections to the increased arson and bombing attacks on clinics.
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After a few days, she was certain, everyone at the lodge would be fairly sure of who she really was.
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Now we are fairly sure that change speeds up at some times, slows down at others.
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The head was not, he was fairly sure , her type.
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She would come around, he was fairly sure .
typical
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Setting out the structure So, to take a fairly typical example, let's begin to design a newsletter.
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She had been, in other words, a fairly typical student.
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From one fairly typical grammar school, studied by Colin Lacey, the fee-payers had almost disappeared as early as 1925.
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The basic components we will describe are fairly typical .
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This palace is fairly typical of the building development in the Malá Strana.
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This reaction is fairly typical for children who have some problems with aggression but who none the less have good potential.
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Highlander's initial involvement with the Yellow Creek people followed a fairly typical pattern.
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Atwater was more colorful and more publicly vicious than most, but his tactics were fairly typical .
■ VERB
act
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But even so, in our modern approach, they must act fairly: and the court will see that they do.
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In the case of exchanges it usually translates into a general contractual duty to act fairly .
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Although they were under a duty to act fairly , they had not broken this duty.
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In all aspects of our personal lending business, we shall act fairly and responsibly.
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Following this there was some suggestion that in administrative decisions there was a lower duty to act fairly .
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The exchange's duty to act fairly means without arbitrariness or capriciousness, and on the basis of relevant considerations.
remain
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This proportionate share of crime has remained fairly stable during the past decade.
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The overall success rate has remained fairly constant over the years at about one in five cases.
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Nicholson remained fairly ambivalent about the thought of having a son, mainly, he explained, because of Anspach's attitude.
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Ownership incursions have remained fairly small.
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Secondly, under a wide variety of circumstances, what we see in various situations remains fairly stable.
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The details of its internal structure varied somewhat from time to time, but the main lines remained fairly stable.
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BMany of these children have parents who remain fairly functional -- often for years.
seem
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Whatever the reasons, Easton's police agree in what seem fairly general conceptualizations of police work.
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But the marketplace seems fairly flooded with Grateful Dead recordings this fall.
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Now I had a pair who were not from the same parents and who seemed fairly suited.
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In hindsight, these ideas about mixing seem fairly simplistic to modern geophysicists.
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On this point, the evidence seems fairly clear.
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The situation seemed fairly calm, I remember, when the first group of us arrived.
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In Highgate our family had seemed fairly normal, but in St. Albans I think we were definitely regarded as eccentric.
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Even when it does get to them, they seem fairly insecticide-tolerant.
treat
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Does a father who is convinced that his child is being fairly treated burst into the classroom and attack the teacher?
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Symington said he is confident that the district judge will find that the tribe has been treated fairly .
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They are not being fairly treated by the Department.
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Second, there is a duty to ensure that different sections of the public have been fairly treated .
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The organisation must ensure that employees believe that they are being treated fairly in comparison with others.
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I do not believe that the genuine asylum seeker will be treated fairly .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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She was fairly certain that she had been there before.
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The disease is still fairly common in many countries.
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The house had a fairly large garage.
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The house has a fairly big living room.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And yet, if we are asked to multiply by five, we will usually go through a fairly laborious process.
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But most religious thinkers accommodated themselves fairly rapidly to the basic concept of evolution.
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He was going with some one at the time, but it was a fairly casual relationship from what I could tell.
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In contradistinction to concentrating ability, diluting ability is fairly well-preserved in renal failure.
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It was, as Tom had said it would be, a fairly small affair.
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Now we are fairly sure that change speeds up at some times, slows down at others.
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She reached one arm back and grabbed the rope while Amy fairly clawed at the head.