Example sentences of "to a mere [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , as Greve points out , in five years the rail journey between Paris , Brussels and Cologne will be reduced to a mere two hours and thirty-five minutes . |
| 2 | It 's as lazy as a cat in hot weather , with the lyric amounting to a mere two verses before the vocals just sit down to let the languid groove take over . |
| 3 | As Frank takes to the skies in a light aircraft , his instructor collapses from a heart attack , and Frank bounces the plane off a road , sticks his leg out , spirals from 3,000 feet to a mere 250 feet , and narrowly misses the control tower . |
| 4 | However , one report that took nearly two hours using version 4.2 was reduced to a mere 20 minutes using version 4.5 . |
| 5 | Consequently Courtney got away with most of his crimes and even when he was brought to trial he was sentenced to a mere seven years in prison . |
| 6 | So far , the card capacity has been largely limited to a mere 64 kilobytes and supply to third parties is controlled by Sharp which price them at up to £50 each , limiting the potential margin for would-be card publishers . |
| 7 | Yet only 30 miles or so away the " Purbeckian " is down to a mere 3 feet , with no obvious breaks , on the French cliffs near Boulogne . |