As a mere figment, as a mere ghost existing in your wife's mind...

Think of love as a mere episode

It was not enough as a mere concept.

The rule of law as a mere concept is not enough.

A mere formality.

Oh, a mere trifle.

It's a mere nothing.

a mere 125 years back this land was known only as the West.

ODA should not be seen as a mere handout, but as a means of improving the labour market.

Now, who today would claim that as a mere conceit of the human mind?

He's just a mere boy.

It's nothing, a mere scratch.

I, a mere reporter, a humble mortal.

It's a mere scrap of paper.

You are no longer a mere child.

It is more than a mere concern.

These are only words from a mere mortal .

These are only words from a mere mortal .

Apparently a mere figment of your wife's imagination.

I'm not a real fish, I'm just a mere plushy.

That's mere theory.

Okay, I cheated, it was a mere 20 seconds.

The mere thought of a snake makes me shiver.

We have way more evidence than a mere confession.

Motome is yet a mere child of 15 years.

Even the famous samurai is a mere human being.

The delay was not justified by any compelling reasons the mere financial burden on a State did not suffice as a justification.

Nevertheless, the draft articles made no mention of any specific consequences attaching to a crime, as opposed to a mere wrongful act.

Unless we thoroughly reform the working methods of the Security Council, we will not be carrying out Council reform but a mere expansion, a mere adjustment.

Thus, mere membership in a criminal organization was regarded as criminal, whether or not participation in that organization was voluntary.

It is not for me, sire, as a mere messenger... to express the wishes of His Imperial Majesty the tsar.

Leopards have plummeted from 700,000 down to a mere 50,000.

He managed to do it in a mere 1,400 minutes.

this is nothing but the word of a mere mortal!

this is nothing but the word of a mere mortal!

Created man, out of a (mere) clot of congealed blood

Created man, out of a (mere) clot of congealed blood

Ours is not a statement of rhetoric or mere protocol.

The draft resolution was baseless and a mere political device.

Yet there must be a greater satisfaction than mere money

My father's a mere employee, while... yours was an employer.

To a mere child, anything over 20 might seem old.

Delmas is a mere 25kg, which is interested in him.

But by mere chance...

and a mere mortal like us. We think you are a liar.