Sentence examples for a pretty competent from inspiring English sources

But if you have a pretty competent kid who may not be getting all A's but who is capable and doesn't hate school, then you want to think twice before you pile up on tutoring".

Quote one, from Mick Potter, after his Catalans Dragons team won at Wakefield on Tuesday night: "It's going to be a pretty interesting competition, that World Cup - that's a pretty competent England squad, and I'll be interested to see how they and New Zealand go against Australia".

Lightroom on Android was always a pretty competent mobile version of the desktop experience, but it never felt all that snappy and native.

This looks like fun, and actually seems simple enough that even someone with a fear of wires could put together a pretty competent smart-domino setup.

The iPad is a great canvas for beautiful apps, but unless you are a pretty competent developer or designer, getting your own content onto the iPad isn't exactly easy.

Our councillors are all pretty competent".

"He sort of wanted that for all his kids, and so he made sure that we were all pretty competent at our respective sports," he says.

(7) After exercising for a while, I felt pretty competent.

I saw it in use at E3, though I didn't get to try it out (I was in a hurry), and although the demo guy seemed to be pretty competent with it, I don't see much of an advantage over something like the Move except in the force-feedback area.

"We looked pretty competent at the scrum, we pinched a coupe of lineout balls off them and won our own balls.

At one point, Margaux says that "everybody we hang out with is pretty competent at vaguely intelligent party talk," which might be a fair summary of the book's presiding atmosphere.