Example sentences of "[prep] a mere [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your heart would go out to her , Wilson , if you were to see how she struggles to be her old self but is exhausted after a mere ten minutes of conversation , and then she is obliged to fall back and take no more part in it though wishing to do so . |
| 2 | Although the dog-collar is but an innovation of a mere 100 years antiquity , the wearing of robes are more venerable . |
| 3 | The effect of undirected heat energy of 40 000 degrees being achieved by the directed use of a mere 4 volts illustrates the ‘ efficiency ’ of the technique ; they also realised that electrochemistry can induce the effects of high pressures-high temperature and pressure being two of the conditions for achieving fusion . |
| 4 | What had begun as a jeu d'esprit of a mere 30,000 words or so made Lewis a household name . |
| 5 | Village life in this case , is being transformed at the cost of a mere fifteen pounds per villager . |
| 6 | In the space of a mere fifteen years , in the sixties and seventies , and in spite of all sorts of elaborate rules supposedly designed to protect that great view , your predecessors , as the planners , architects and developers of the City , wrecked the London skyline and desecrated the dome of St Paul 's . |
| 7 | The whole regiment had been cut to emergency rations of a mere three meals a day , and those cold and rain soaked , eaten in miserable silence . |
| 8 | This one has been sounded to a depth of a mere 1,000 feet , but peer into it is as far as I would ever want to go ; such crevices are no doubt thrilling to explore when they widen out into great chambers , but the thought of the narrow places I for one find exceedingly off-putting . |
| 9 | It comes with a knock down tag of a mere 94 calories per glass . |
| 10 | This , in fact , is a very slim document , of a mere seven pages , explicitly reporting ‘ what is already familiar to many people ’ . |
| 11 | The match resulted in a win for Manchester who having batted first & scored 72 dismissed Bolton for a mere 14 runs . |
| 12 | In Nick Berry 's Physical Pursuits , the former EastEnder appears for a mere 10 minutes but declares : ‘ With this new approach you can shift the flab and even cure a hangover . ’ |
| 13 | He was sure it would work for him and his doggedness was rewarded , when , after using the new tool for a mere six months , he retained his Ryder Cup place and ended the 1989 season in 11th place on the money list with more than £188,000 . |
| 14 | Similar fates were to befall those children called Charles : Charles Thynne Titford ( the influence of the Carpenter family at work here in the choice of a second Christian name ) survived for a mere 11 months , and a further Charles was dead and buried within three weeks of his birth . |
| 15 | He had been at this cure for a mere four years but his reputation was growing fast . |
| 16 | However , after the Commissioner had been in office for a mere three months the Government introduced a Green Paper which proposed to extend her powers significantly , and under the Employment Act 1990 , section 10 , she was given power to assist members in enforcement of their common law contractual rights against the union . |
| 17 | Add to this a particularly dodgy multiload for a mere three levels and you have a product to haunt any gamesplayer . |
| 18 | An observer only a kilometre inside the edge of the path of totality , for example , would see total eclipse lasting for a mere 15 seconds . |
| 19 | Davis agreed to go up to 200 guineas , and in the event secured the unseen yearling for a mere 160 guineas . |
| 20 | So Waqar , with this old , old ball , under cloud cover , had taken 5 for 13 in 38 balls , and with Munton pad-batting Mushtaq , England 's last six batsmen had made two runs between them , and the last eight wickets had dropped for a mere 28 runs . |
| 21 | Normally it is of the second magnitude , just about equal to the Pole Star , but every 2½ days it gives a long , slow wink , taking four hours to fade down below the third magnitude and remaining at minimum for a mere 20 minutes before starting to recover — after which nothing more happens for the next 2½ days . |
| 22 | One farmer told the authors that it cost him 194,000 Somali shillings ( $14 ) to grow 100 kilos ( 220lbs ) of maize , which he could sell for a mere 55,000 shillings at the local market . |
| 23 | In the early part of the decade ‘ Laura Ashley ’ was selling a bustle-backed wedding dress in cotton seersucker for a mere ten pounds fifty , A famous designer was charging £600 for a comparable design . |
| 24 | When the aircraft took off , at last , with a mere 18 missiles , no clearance had been given for overflights between Tel Aviv and Tehran . |
| 25 | It was just one hundred and seven days since , sailing from exile in Elba with a mere thousand men , he had landed on an empty beach in southern France . |
| 26 | The accounts are , as usual , contradictory , but according to the fullest account de Tourville next despatched nine of his ships back to Brest to collect additional troops , who were to be transported across the Channel in shallow-draught galleys , collected from the Mediterranean , with a mere two feet [ 0.6 m ] of freeboard between waterline and deck . |
| 27 | In 1935–36 , the only tutorial Class in the county was at Norwich , in social philosophy , with a mere seventeen members although another Tutorial Class in psychology commenced in 1936–37 . |
| 28 | The largest of them , the Resolution , was only 110 feet long , 30 feet 5 inches wide with a mere 462 tons burthen . |
| 29 | Nevertheless volcanic bombs were hurled this distance compared with a mere 25 miles from the more publicized Krakatoa eruption . |
| 30 | On Thursday 6 October 1715 Derwentwater and Forster , with a mere 60 horsemen , occupied Rothbury in central Northumberland , a small market town about 27 miles [ 44 km ] north of Newcastle and about 14 [ 23 km ] from the Scottish border . |