The phrase "a mere option" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate that something is just one of several possibilities and may not be significant or important.
Example: "While there are many choices available, this is just a mere option among them."
Alternatives: "just a choice" or "simply an alternative".
But since the turmoil swept across the region last fall,Poland has gone from regarding the euro, now used in 16 countries, as a mere option for the future to something it can no longer do without.
Just imagine if it made Bing the default search engine for iOS devices, and Google a mere option….
RSUs are different from options in that they represent an actual share of stock with a value on it not a mere option to buy at a certain price and it's yours after you've "vested".
Participants who were in this situation might have been more willing to undergo surgery than patients for whom TKR was a mere hypothetical option.
They want the mere option of using COFDM (Coded Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) like they use in Europe.
Based on these important parameters, they explained the fact that rotationplasty should be considered as an alternative to amputation in some distal femoral tumors that amputation seemed to be the mere option.
It is, however, said that the statute of the state, as interpreted by its highest court, is not directed against gambling contracts relating to the selling or buying of grain or other commodities, but against mere options to sell or buy at a future time without any settlement between the parties upon the basis of differences, and therefore involving no element of gambling.
Paper and PDF files have become mere options, purchasable by those who want and can afford them.
When postmodernism opened the lid on gender, the roles of mother and wife that had pretty much exclusively defined women's lives now became mere options -- just one way to be free to be you and me.
A mere $30,000 for options to develop the Erie Canal should be an embarrassment to Mr. Pataki for lots of reasons.
That left Fixed Base Operators (FBOs), or the firms who run private jet terminals, with a mere 9 other options at London's other airports.
