Sentence examples for a mere fall from inspiring English sources

edited by John F. Callahan Hamish Hamilton, 368pp, £16.99 There are three monoliths of American fiction, by writers whose subsequent works proved to be a mere fall of pebbles: Call It Sleep, by Henry Roth; The Catcher in the Rye, by J D Salinger; and Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison.

Some predictions for nationwide traffic talk about a mere 1% fall this year from last year's total of around 700m passengers; some say it could reach more than a billion by 2012.Even if growth disappears completely, few business people were exactly happy with the status quo.

When her husband dies, the widow often becomes a pariah, excluded from family gatherings for fear the mere fall of her shadow will bring bad luck and tragedy.

While media projects Beyonce signing a Pepsi $50 million ad campaign throughout the World Wide Web, the fact that single Black mothers across America have a median net worth of a mere $5 dollars falls in the shadow of the singularity of her financial success.

The circuit of the waters is mere falling.

To me, anyway, the real shocker is that, by 2008, Barclays' leverage ratio — total assets divided by total equity — was forty-three, which means a mere three per cent fall in the value of its assets could have wiped out its entire capital.

The Czechs and Slovaks, a mere week after the fall of the Wall, launched their own Velvet Revolution.

And yet, characteristically, it is also a curtain falling, a mere stage effect.

In New York, welfare caseloads shrank by 30percentt, but child poverty fell a mere 7percentt.

Trading volume fell a mere 1percentt in 2001 and soared 30percentt in 2002.

New York's index has fallen a mere 2.6 points since 1980, suggesting how poorly the city has managed to integrate blacks and whites over the past three decades.