Sentence examples for something pretty serious from inspiring English sources

So something pretty serious must have happened in order for young people on the streets to be behaving as though they have already been incarcerated.

"The U.S. Open is probably her favorite event, so if she's this far out and is not going to play, it's got to be something pretty serious," Roddick said at a men's tournament in Mason, Ohio.

It must have been something pretty serious behind the scenes for Ally to hand in his resignation or offer it.

"We know from talking to park managers, friends groups and the public that we need to do something pretty serious if we are not going to face the same crisis we had in the past," Drew Bennellick from HLF said.

But unless they've got something pretty serious up their sleeves, RED's Scarlet is still a threat to them, especially in the independent filmmakers market.

Entomologist Allan Showler of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, who led FAO efforts to quash an incipient locust plague in East Africa in the 1990s, says prevention efforts in West Africa last fall apparently were inadequate, and as a result, "this one looks like it could get into something pretty serious".

"In the drama of his governorship, it's been elevated to something of pretty serious importance," said Raphael J. Sonenshein, the executive director of the Edmund G. "Pat" Brown Institute of Public Affairs at California State University.

If he's violated those requirements he's done something that's pretty serious.

Sometimes it was a bit of a struggle, but we did things quickly and were serious about making something pretty as well as powerful.

"I kind of realised that this was pretty serious and wasn't something where I was just going to turn up back at work tomorrow.

Despite the fact that no story was ever published about them, he said, "That doesn't mean it wasn't a pretty serious attempt to use us for something".