The phrase "a mere model of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is a simple or basic representation of something else, often implying that it lacks depth or complexity.
Example: "The prototype was a mere model of the final product, lacking many of the features that would be included in the commercial version."
Alternatives: "a simple representation of" or "a basic version of".
If concentration on the depiction of a mere model explains certain inhumane features of Plato's political vision, are there also indications that he was aware of the limitations he imposed on his 'political animals' by their confinement to just one function in an efficiently run community?
Several cancer researchers derided his work as the mere noodling of a surgeon, rife with poor methods, sloppy calculations and inappropriate experimental models.
Far more than any mere model town, Disney's vision was that of a living, breathing community – a combination of the urban and the pastoral that was both expansive and futuristic.
Especially, the cooperation between local experts (e.g., the mayors) and external experts during the workshop resulted in additional (unexpected) solutions that would never have been the output of a mere GIS modelling.
Its top editors and executives all agreed: to save The Reporter, a mere refocusing of the business model would not do; they needed to eviscerate it.
Our current model is simplistic: it makes use of a mere frequency count of the geographic locations of tweets to assign individuals to a home and work location.
Interneuronal α-synuclein transfer, which underlies protein spreading from the medulla oblongata to more rostral brain regions in this rat model, is not a mere consequence of passive release from damaged or dead neurons.
The ICF uses as its conceptualisation the biopsychosocial model of disability that represents a synthesis of the medical and social models, rather than a mere adoption of one or the other (Bickenbach, Ustun, Chatterji, & Badley, 1998).
Not 80% role models, or 50%, or 25% or even 10% role models, but a mere 5% role models.
