"a pretty large number" is a correct and usable part of a sentence in written English.
You can use it to emphasis a large quantity or size. For example: "The sales figures for the last quarter were a pretty large number."
That seems a pretty large number for a programme about a terrible thing that happened seven years ago and was never going to make for cheerful viewing.
But still, it's a pretty large number that is technically difficult to manage — and having a technical edge has also been an advantage Dropbox has had over time.
"Do you want local government to continue to be responsible for education and social care - because if you don't then that drives you towards a pretty large number of small authorities - if you do there is quite a compelling case for a smaller number of larger authorities?" he said.
I should have thought that there must be a pretty large number there".
That's a pretty large number of authors, and suggests that other large weeklies can do more to up their percentages of female bylines.
High replies that it is true there are a pretty large number of men there, adding many more have yet to arrive, yet that "there will seem too few when the wolf comes".
If p = 2, such spaces were introduced by Allen L. Shields to study weighted shift operators in his article [1] which is one of basic studies in this area, and is a pretty large study that contains a number of interesting results, and indeed it is mainly of auxiliary nature.
And while Amazon's got a bit of a stranglehold on e-reader hardware here in the States, the company's mobile apps have no doubt played a pretty large role in the uptick in numbers, fueled by the introduction of the Kindle Unlimited subscription service and Prime Reading, which offers select titles for free to Prime members.
Things have been changing "pretty rapidly and on a pretty large scale," he said.
