The phrase "a mere bridge" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that serves only as a connection or transition, often implying that it is insignificant or not substantial.
Example: "In the grand scheme of things, this project is just a mere bridge to our ultimate goal."
Alternatives: "a simple link" or "just a connection".
Nietzsche refers to this higher mode of being as "superhuman" (übermenschlich), and associates the doctrine of eternal recurrence — a doctrine for only the healthiest who can love life in its entirety — with this spiritual standpoint, in relation to which all-too-often downhearted, all-too-commonly-human attitudes stand as a mere bridge to be crossed and overcome.
However, most likely, Azure represents a mere bridge from the present paradigm in which the operating system drives the performance of our devices to the next digital paradigm where our devices become mere conduits for Big Data and artificial intelligence platforms that are run from the cloud.
Skimming the bay nearly at sea gull level, most of the bridge hovers a mere 10 to 12 feet above the water, so low that fishermen tie their boats to the bridge and throw out a line.
If anything can be said for certain, then, it is that the gulf between those in favour of tighter controls and those against will be hard to bridge in a mere two months.
A local developer, David C. Walentas of Two Trees Management, has applied for a zoning change that would allow him to build a 170-foot-tall building a mere 70 feet from the bridge, on the Brooklyn side.
The proposal made in early 2000, which was expected to be executed in 2002, included a bridge that was a mere 170 feet long and 20 feet wide.
The whole aqueduct descends in height by only 17 m over its entire length, while the bridge descends by a mere 2.5 cm – a gradient of only 1 in 3,000 – which is indicative of the great precision that Roman engineers were able to achieve using only simple technology.
More than a mere matter of building roads and bridges and increasing access to cheap energy, the WPA was about restoring a collective spirit, a shared stake, in constructing the sinews of a more competitive, prosperous country.
Thus, it can be concluded that the multi-objective optimization approach enables extending the theory of power maximization bridging the gap between a mere optimization of the thermodynamic cycle and the practical feasibility of a power generation system.
The scale of it is so global, as a mere individual on this planet I don't know how to bridge that scale.
And there were more gasps when the Oakwood bridge--the final entry--cracked apart at a mere 33 1/3 pounds.
