Sentence examples for a mere generation from inspiring English sources

It's a huge sum, particularly when you realize that merit scholarships were exceptionally rare at law schools a mere generation ago.

A mere generation ago, rare was the man who did not see himself as the breadwinner and spent little time in the conjugal home.

In 2001 William Damon observed: "Young people across the world have been disengaging from civic and political activities to a degree unimaginable a mere generation ago.

Our path toward understanding Ebola mirrors, in numerous ways, our coming to know HIV/AIDS a mere generation or so ago.

Think of it: a mere generation ago entrepreneurs had to physically trudge down to the library for books to upgrade themselves.

In other words, mutation analysis can be carried out in a mere generation.

At 20 minutes per generation, a mere three generations in an hour of playing time is unlikely to have caused the dramatic shift they saw.

Thus, the mere generation of IFNγ-producing T cells appears to be an insufficient criterion for predicting LVS efficacy in mice, and possibly humans.

Such technologies should aim beyond the mere generation of lists of differentially expressed macromolecules and their derivatives, as a cause or consequence of the studied pathology.

Here Pufendorf follows Hobbes in holding that mere generation cannot ground parental authority (just as place of birth alone cannot ground patriotism), and that this depends instead on a tacit pact based on utility.

Alternatively, it could be that, as in the knowledge-driven model, the mere generation of the findings leads to pressure to act upon the new knowledge.