The phrase "a mere example of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate that something is just one instance or illustration of a larger concept or category.
Example: "This painting is a mere example of the artist's unique style, which is evident in many of their works."
Alternatives: "just an illustration of" or "simply a representation of".
"Wipeout" may be a mere example of disposable comedy, but it connects with an average of eight million viewers each week.
True, he was a member of a dying breed -- the old school of academic male poets -- but to disparage Matthews as a mere example of a lifestyle is to miss the great Horatian virtue he embodied: that of civility, which entailed the lost art of conversing.
As such they are a mere example of the policy challenge that rests upon many states' shoulders to decide on whether or not change the mode of legal governance for establishing heat infrastructures from a bottom-up perspective.17.17
After all, the conduct is non-violent and a mere example of a somewhat harsh freedom of expression.
The cross-country massive campaign they launched to clean up and decorate the streets with their own limited resources was a mere example of many they set to tell the nation that Egypt belonged to them, all of them.
As a mere example, decreasing of the equivalent thermal resistance Rb applied to a small edifice (surface ~ 150 m2, for which ~ 200 linear meters of borehole are needed) can entail a total borehole length reduction on the order of 30 40 m (ca. 15 20%).
These can be framed in terms of Beetham's three dimensions of legitimacy and, subsequently, as a mere example, compared with the setup of the Overijssel case.
His use of these courts to pursue personal grievances, and particularly to treat delinquents as if mere examples of a whole class worthy of punishment, angered the rich, who were annoyed as well by his enormous wealth and ostentatious living.
I was keen to read Haldane's argument, and it turned out to go a good deal deeper than providing mere examples of workers wasting time on social-media sites.
In this case single individuals (either people or objects) will be seen as mere examples of dynamics and characteristics pertaining to their group in a way that seems to resemble the generalizing procedure of natural science.
As Windelband already saw, the natural sciences view individual occurrences as mere examples of general laws.
