The phrase "a mere dozen" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to emphasize the smallness or insignificance of the quantity being referred to, often in a context where a larger number might be expected.
Example: "The event attracted a mere dozen attendees, far fewer than we had anticipated."
Alternatives: "only a dozen" or "just a dozen".
Moreover, in the process he has reduced the number of electrodes in an EEG cap from the 30 required for pinball to a mere dozen.
"My Modern Life," Mr. Mayerson's eighth show in a New York gallery, contains a mere dozen paintings surrounded by uncustomary expanses of white walls.
One of Mr. Cavell's philosophical projects, which has extended over three decades, has been to see the world through the scrim of a mere dozen films.
In latest counting the LNP MP Ewen Jones is a mere dozen votes ahead of the Labor challenger Cathy O'Toole in the north Queensland electorate.
THE week before Independence Day, the Dixie Chicks played the Washington MCI Center, a mere dozen blocks or so from the White House.
By 5 15 a castoff East German locomotive drags five cars with dark compartments lurking behind shattered windows into the station, where a mere dozen people wait.
Barclays has made about 5,000 traditional bicycles available at hundreds of docking stations throughout the city, which makes it a more convenient option than Hertz's mere dozen e-bikes at a single location.
Was Holm therefore as great as invulnerable, even as we once thought Rousey was? Had Rousey's invincibility been a myth, the result of a statistically unsound extrapolation from her mere dozen M.M.A. victories?
Was Holm therefore as great — as invulnerable, even — as we once thought Rousey was? Had Rousey's invincibility been a myth, the result of a statistically unsound extrapolation from her mere dozen M.M.A. victories?
Today's Jewish population in Egypt is a mere few dozen.
In the back, with a mere two dozen seats at the bar and around one communal table, the joint tends to be jumping.
