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Example sentences for: mere

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The five-tiered auditorium, with its incongruous modern ceiling painted by Chagall in 1964, holds a mere 2,000 spectators.
However, it was only a mere 5,000 years ago that Homo loquens hit upon writing down some of the Babelian babble around him--and there has been no stopping him since!
At that rate, it will take a mere 500 years until every family in China has a PC."
They dismiss her as a mere "wardrobe consultant" who has shuffled Gore's "shirt-and-tie combination," instructed him to wear "brown, olive, and tan," and told him "to wear different colored suits and all that"--evidently to no effect, since, as Cohen dryly observes, "polls have yet to record the difference."
Any badlands that you may have seen up to this point have been a mere appetizer for the main course.