too bad
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“I do see this as more of an extension of a live BP situation. So it didn’t feel too bad going into this game.”
From Los Angeles Times
Always before when pain from the gallstones had got too bad, she’d had an operation.
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Then he said, “Russell, I think she’s turning out to be not too bad a teacher.”
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He cast around the riverbank for food, but saw only the dead wolves, and they smelt too bad even to think about.
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A few even said it was too bad, we were just getting to know her.
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