If you're not interested in an album called Virile Strain Transmission then you're pretty much beyond hope.
"Meanwhile, the plan to grow the economy is pretty much to hope that oil prices keep going up". "The problem, foremost, is that there may be no other means of raising the approval rating besides fresh military adventures abroad".
Kim said that over the past two days he had his aides checking his mailbox on an hourly basis in hopes of finding a letter from the Republicans, but now he has "pretty much given up hope".
By the time Joe Durant made back-to-back birdies to open the back nine at the Bob Hope Classic in La Quinta, Calif., those chasing him had pretty much given up hope.
We've pretty much given up hope that something will be done now".
By the time he was in his early 40s, he had broken two engagements and pretty much given up hope.
Thom is right, however, in saying that if a song is not on radio in the UK, it pretty much has no hope of chart success.
Gail: I have pretty much given up hope on getting a pope who will do something sensible about the church's longstanding nuttiness when it comes to matters of sex.
By her late 30s, Maddie Corman, a mother of three who spent nearly a decade taking care of her children full time, had pretty much given up hope of ever seeing her name on a Broadway marquee.
But the terror attacks have made things even harder, he said, so much so that he has pretty much given up hope of finding a job in his field soon.
