Sentence examples for a mere 5 years from inspiring English sources

The drug was approved early in 1997, a mere 5 1/2 years after trials began.

The Hoover Dam took a mere 5 years to complete (1931-1936).

Field resistance towards the carbamate chemistries were detected a mere 5 years after their introduction in the 1950s, whereas it often took a decade or more for many of the OPs (Brattsten 1990), suggesting that enzymes capable of degrading carbamates may have been present already, at least at low frequencies, in some insect populations.

He would be succeeded a month later by Jose Mario Bergoglio, now Pope Francis and a mere 77 years old.

Riley is a mere 30 years old.

I was a mere 24 years old.

A comparative newcomer, Renewal is a mere 10 years old.

Overall life expectancy was a mere 48 years.

Life expectancy is a mere 52 years, and dropping.

The one after that, a mere 14 years.

Christie was sentenced to a mere 20 years in jail.