The phrase "a mere list" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to emphasize that something is only a simple or basic enumeration without additional detail or significance.
Example: "The report was disappointing, as it consisted of a mere list of tasks without any analysis or insights."
Alternatives: "just a list" or "only a list".
At this time, I offer a mere list, except for a note on "Ida".
I offer a mere list, except for a note on what is by far the best film of the year.
By David Denby December 13, 2014 At this time, I offer a mere list, except for a note on "Ida".
The rest of the song can stay exactly the same; it's the addition of the hint that there is another culture that changes everything, and turns a mere list of problems into a list of problems with a coded solution.
The others, in alphabetical order: "American Sniper" "A Most Violent Year" "Birdman" "Boyhood" "Get On Up" "Mr. Turner" "National Gallery" "Selma" "Snowpiercer" At this time, I offer a mere list, except for a note on "Ida".
He says they are offering a menu, a mere list, when what businesses really need is a "prime contractor"—someone who will integrate professional services in the way that a building contractor integrates electricians, plasterers, brickies, etc.A few firms are providing this, he says, but they "can be counted on the fingers of a maimed hand".
Their personnel files contain small photos and slight facts that begin to portray the contours of individual lives rather than a mere listing of names.
More than a mere listing of resources, the book offers guidelines and commentaries by patients who asked the right questions (and by some who were afraid to ask).
Finally, although he made strenuous efforts to become erudite in languages, natural science, mathematics, philosophy, and history, as a mere listing of the wide-ranging contents of his library demonstrates, Leonardo remained an empiricist of visual observation.
A mere listing of funding sources for a study or the author's salary or honoraria is not adequate if most readers are not able to establish the link to a potential source of bias.
For countless other observers, it was a mere "laundry list" of proposals that have no chance of passing the Republican-led House of Representatives. Republican-led House of Representatives
