The phrase "a mere place" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to emphasize the simplicity or insignificance of a location in a given context.
Example: "To him, the bustling city was just a mere place, devoid of any personal connection or meaning."
Alternatives: "just a location" or "simply a spot".
Most consider the Swiss born Italian to be a mere place-holder in the wake of Villas-Boas's exit, before a more permanent appointment is made in the summer.
Internet shopping has increased the pressure: customers can compare prices easily from their own homes.Sainsbury's, Britain's oldest supermarket, has tumbled in recent years from its long-held spot as the country's favourite grocer to a mere third place.
Steven Gerrard, on the other hand, evidenced the kind of crushing disloyalty that can force men to contemplate the horror of solitary strolling, deeming him worthy of a mere third place.
For one thing, many of the abandoned sites were mere place holders, so their disappearance actually increases the percentage of sites that he calls active.
The roughnecks are mere place setting, designed to get the aged Rose Gloria Stewartt) in their midst to tell them the story of the sinking of the Titanic.
But the IRPT now holds a mere two places in the 63-seat House of Representatives, as a series of fraudulent elections have deprived them of their share.
At Harlem Success Academy, another charter school, 6,500 people are expected to apply for a lottery that will award a mere 1,100 places.
Xiang Liu's injury meant he had to pull out of the 110m hurdles; Helen Tucker missed out by a mere 22 places in her attempt to add Olympic triathlon title to her World Championship; Team GB got a silver in the sailing.
Last year total auction turnover in Hirst works was a mere $29.6m, placing him well behind artists such as Gerhard Richter, whose work earned almost $200m in auction sales, and Zeng Fanzhi, a Chinese painter who is probably the richest artist in the world.Mr Hirst will have a place in history.
