It is a very long, pretty good American novel, but comes to us in a year when there have been a number of long, but distinctly more brilliant and different books (A Little Life and A Brief History of Seven Killings to name but two).
HR were adjusted for age, sex, systolic blood pressure, total cholesterol, smoking, diabetes, body mass index, education, physical activity and self-rated health in the categories very good; pretty good; somewhat good; pretty poor or poor.
The self-rated health question was formulated "How do you consider your general state of health last year?" Response alternatives were: very good, pretty good, somewhat good, pretty poor or poor.
"Most of the mares are fairly young, range animals," Mr. Simpson said, "very quiet, big animals, not very pretty, but very good mothers".
"I am a very keen and pretty good fly fisherman.
Similarly, the five-level variables (n = 3; for example, "how is your health these days?") were each dichotomized with "1" representing "not too good," "poor", or "very poor"; and "0" representing "pretty good" or "very good" (Table 1).
There are no defending-champion Lakers, no Sacramento Kings, no clear demarcation between the very good and the pretty good.
Although she made her choices very young, she made pretty good ones, often by instinct.
We're two maiden ladies, very independent and in pretty good health".
It's pretty good, very smartly designed.
"I did pretty good in a very, very socially conservative state, so that tells you it's a very popular position," Paul said.
