Sentence examples for fairly preoccupied from inspiring English sources

Over the past ten years or so, Britain has been fairly preoccupied with paedophiles; finding out who they are, naming and shaming them, even – in a highly embarrassing set-back for the credibility of vigilantes everywhere – beating up paediatricians because it sounds a bit like paedophile.

I'm always fairly preoccupied until I find myself well in the middle of something I never meant to walk into.

A pro-democracy rally on Wednesday night attracted as many as 50,000 demonstrators in a sign of what may be the politicization of what used to be a fairly apolitical city preoccupied with commerce.

Instead, you intuit the scale of the story and its wider implications through the eyes and voices of individuals preoccupied with fairly mundane visitations -- like the comings and goings of Miles's father, Max, a jocular ne'er-do-well with little regard for anyone else's feelings and even less for his own hygiene.

Before the surgery, Salimah had been a fairly reserved woman, who would occasionally be annoyed or preoccupied by small things like dust or untidiness; her husband said that she was sometimes "obsessive" about jobs that needed to be done around the house.

Harriet did fairly well, but Labour is in disarray and will be preoccupied with its leadership for four months before it's settled – and for four years afterwards.

I think there's a fairly good chance it did, but that you didn't read the letters since you were preoccupied with getting well -- which is completely understandable.

With none of the best picture contenders reaching huge audiences, and with Harvey Weinstein, late of Miramax, preoccupied with starting a new company and backing only a handful of Oscar contenders, the Oscar campaign season was fairly tame.

Alas, ministers are preoccupied.

Roger is similarly preoccupied.

He seemed preoccupied.