"They have gone from pretty much ground zero to a fairly aggressive program level".
I mean, it's never great when the reason your wife gives for not leaving you is pretty much grounds for divorce on its own.
"The market has pretty much ground to a halt for the past few weeks," said Ben Savage, the managing director for rice at Jackson Son & Company, a commodities trading firm in London.
Within an hour of the crash, the bridges and tunnels to Manhattan had been closed; the UN had been evacuated; planes were diverted; and work had pretty much ground to a standstill.
In the third quarter, growth pretty much ground to a halt.
Activity in these markets have pretty much ground to a halt without Rwandan customers.
After Uhuru, space science in Kenya pretty much ground to a halt.
This weekend, I'm celebrating Pride in San Francisco, a place that's pretty much Ground Zero for all things gay.
Congress pretty much ground to a halt as nearly every piece of legislation offered or backed by Democrats was voted down or blocked from consideration.
