The phrase "a fairly tricky" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is somewhat difficult or complicated.
Example: "The puzzle was a fairly tricky challenge that took us hours to solve."
Alternatives: "somewhat challenging" or "rather difficult".
Prints at Le Giornate are the best available anywhere, they are shown at the correct speed--a fairly tricky bit of business where silents are concerned--and they always have musical accompaniment, with a brace of pianists spelling each other at two-hour intervals.
Trying to explain the difference between what's real and what's pretend on a "film set" full of real people can get fairly tricky, so a more detailed explanation of the show on the guide map might have allowed me to think more carefully about taking him to it.
She was a capable pianist who boldly sang a few arias with some fairly tricky piano parts, like the one Nannetta sings when disguised as the Queen of the Fairies in the final act of Verdi's "Falstaff".
Obviously an important factor in any nacho recipe, but it's fairly tricky to get hold of the American cheese of choice, monterey jack, in this country.
Using this device turns out to be fairly tricky.
"Depending on your age or agility, getting on and off of those can be fairly tricky," said Steve Callaway, design manager of DMJM Aviation, which supervised the project.
Thus, to give but one instance, his description of the killing of Fred Hampton, a Black Panther leader, by the Chicago Police in 1969, is persuasively done (and it involves the fairly tricky matter of working from circumstantial evidence).
(My Xbox 360, an old school Premium model, only has ~3GB of free space. It makes buying DLC fairly tricky, yes).
Presumably thanks to groups like Britain First accusing butchers and local branches of Asda of being covert al-Qaeda operatives for selling halal meat, stores offering halal Christmas foods are fairly tricky to come by.
Then again, this can be fairly tricky grammatically (and socially), and the writer may simply be confused or fed up with trying to comply with it, so don't overplay this one.
