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It's a mere formality.

In Poland, the faith has always meant more than mere religion.

They were mere puppets.

The mere suggestion that she might have to scrub the floor filled her with horror.

The mere mention of food made her feel sick.

Sixty per cent of teachers are women, but a mere 5 percent of women are heads or deputies.

Tickets are a mere £7.50 at the door.

North Carolina taxed cigarettes at a mere 2 cents a packet.

Whenever there was a gap in the traffic the merest pressure on the accelerator was enough to close it.

I may be planning a mere kiddie pageant.

Greek civilization had quality; Rome, mere quantity.

The three large volcanoes on the Tharsis bulge are a little smaller-a “mere” 18 kilometers high.

But the mere prospect of astronomical toll hikes is still alarming to governments when they think about selling or leasing parts of an infrastructure.

Once it had taken hold: slash-and-burn agriculture expanded its frontiers rapidly as village after village took up new lands, moving forward so rapidly that one expert has estimated it took a mere two centuries to cover 2,000 kilometers from eastern to southern Africa.