The phrase "a mere growth" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is considered insignificant or minimal in terms of development or increase.
Example: "What we are witnessing is not a significant change in the market, but rather a mere growth that does not warrant concern."
Alternatives: "a slight increase" or "a trivial expansion".
Using this growth at low concentrations, and lack of it at higher concentrations, we have been able to grade the transporter defects, which is more informative than a mere growth assay at lower concentrations.
Although low transcription levels of mature miR-17 have been found in S phase cells compared to G0/G1 and G2/M phase HeLa cells (Cloonan et al., 2008), our result is not a mere growth arrest phenomenon, as miR-17 and miR-19b are not regulated in young replicating vs. quiescent endothelial cells (data not shown).
The rate of increase slows down further leading to a mere 0.1 °C growth at the end of the third cycle.
Even the parties' rival pies in the sky bank on what is, for Ireland, a mere 5% growth.
In the most recent comparison, from 1998 to 1999, Absolut's United States market share grew 5.9percentt, compared with a mere 1percentt growth for Smirnoff.
The agriculture sector, which contributes 56% to GDP, is reeling at a mere 2% growth rate, which is of great concern for the economic planners.
Penguin and HarperCollins had solid years, while there were turnarounds from mid-table players such as Pan Macmillan (12% up), Simon & Schuster (12%), Egmont (9%), and of course Bloomsbury (a mere 140% growth).
A mere 38% growth would suggest a turning point.
Merck lost 10% of its market cap in response to a "mere" 14% growth in net income.
They all believed that they consisted of the very same stuff that the rest of the organism was made of, so that their mere growth, recombination and accumulation en masse would make visible the particular traits for which they were responsible.
Today, we don't need mere growth in output — we need transformation from low wage to high wage jobs, from carbon to clean manufacturing and transportation, from a high-waste consumer economy to a zero-waste consumer economy and more.
