The phrase "a mere problem" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to downplay the significance of an issue, suggesting that it is not as serious or complicated as it may seem.
Example: "While some may see this as a major setback, I believe it's just a mere problem that we can easily resolve."
Alternatives: "a simple issue" or "a minor concern".
If this were a mere procedural problem, the banks could foreclose once they marshaled their evidence.
"To dismiss hair loss as a mere cosmetic problem is the wrong approach," Dr. Kyei added.
This was work that he regarded as a mere technical problem, a type of manual labor — "ambulance chasing" is what a prominent mathematician called it.
This was work that he regarded as a mere technical problem, a type of manual labor—"ambulance chasing" is what a prominent mathematician called it.
Yet the Fed, which just wrapped a two-day meeting to diagnose the economy, is dismissing these real-world costs as a trick of the charts – a mere math problem rather than a real snapshot of the challenges facing Americans.
Libby and others began to understand that atherosclerosis wasn't a mere plumbing problem but also an immune disease — "our body's defenses turned against ourselves," he told me.
Preet Bharara, the United States attorney for Manhattan, reacted angrily to Mr. Cardozo's contentions that the settlement reflected a mere technical problem, and that it accounted for "less than half of 1 percent" of the $18 billion cost of the program in the city over 11 years.
"The so-called discrepancies found in the fiscal accounts, which organizations such as Global Witness attributed in bad faith to diversion of public funds by government officials, have been shown to be a mere accounting problem regarding resources financed by oil revenues and public expenditures made with those resources," the government said.
Lee acknowledged the controversy over classification, but insisted that treating the issue as a mere morality problem won't work.
Almost 50 million people in the US have no health insurance, people who have to decide whether that gash really requires stitches, or whether that heartburn is a mere stomach problem or sign, instead, of a potentially fatal heart attack.
