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Until now – so goes the case for Ms May – she had proved a safeish pair of hands in a notoriously tricky department.

Neither her sex nor status should save Theresa May if she's misled us | Andrew Rawnsley 2011

I've got used to you coming to what looks like the brink, and somehow turning it into safeish ground.

Cat visit plus my body loses function. Linda and I face the unspeakable D. word in our own ways. Elizabeth McClung 2009

According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the body set up under the auspices of the United Nations to establish a consensus on global warming, a price of somewhere between $20 and $50 per tonne of CO2 by 2020-30 should start to stabilise CO2 concentrations at around 550 parts per million (widely reckoned to be a safeish level) by the end of this century.

Matthew Yglesias » Also: Ignorance Now Equals Strength 2007

He lost an election in what was then a safeish Conservative seat because his constituents were completely disgusted with him.

This is an insult Rachel 2006

We got to the city at 3: 30 in the morning, passed some time until it was safeish to go wander the streets, and finally around 6: 00 settled at a cool rooftop restaurant to pass the morning.

TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010

We don't really want to tell our landlord about our decreased income; there's no cheaper rents in safeish neighborhoods around, and where I live, I don't have to drive to work, which is saving us money.

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