But a group of professionals must remain more than a mere business.
The mere fact that a group of people chooses to hold on to a minority religion and culture that is viewed with distrust by its giant cousins requires a certain amount of non-conformity, not to mention guts.
Regarding learned behaviour in larval Drosophila, Kohn et al. asked whether the mere presence of a group of other larvae has an effect on a target individual (Kohn et al., 2013).
There he ran a group of a dozen analysts at a time when mere business models "were going public at billion-dollar valuations," he said.
Of those there are a handful of aged champions who provide mere ceremonial value, and a group of callow amateurs who can realistically be discounted.
A group of us were interning at the time, and we were closer than mere colleagues or friends.
ANY mere mortal might have reacted with dismay, even anger, if a group of brash newcomers threatened to undo the accomplishments of a lifetime.
Many marine species, notably coccolithophores (a group of shelled single-celled algae) and deep-dwelling foraminifera (a group of shelled protozoa), became extinct in mere centuries, and some students of the transition think the increased acidity was more to blame for this than the rise in temperature.
The International Organisation of Securities Commissions (IOSCO), a grouping of financial regulators, said last year that the potential for false reporting "is not mere conjecture".
Generally, both healthcare professionals and patients report about a broader group of incidents than mere adverse events.
It hasn't translated into scintillating soccer, but by grinding out results against Pachuca and Alajuelense, Montreal have shown the bite that comes with becoming a team, not a mere group of individuals.
