The phrase "a mere service" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to downplay the significance or importance of a service being offered or provided.
Example: "While some may see this as a luxury, I consider it a mere service that should be available to everyone."
Alternatives: "just a service" or "simply a service".
New Labour has treated the state as a mere "service provider" for individuals, simultaneously increasing investment in public services and running them down through privatisation.
In Tokyo, students say, they are a relief from cramped quarters, siblings, television and the internet.Oddly, Japan's education ministry refuses to recognise juku, dismissing them as a mere service businesses.
Whereas philosophy was often regarded as a marginal, ivory-tower phenomenon, bio-ethics was seen by many as a mere service provider for scientists, while TA was considered to be a fairly technical field.
Uber has already begun their shift toward becoming a real-time logistics network, rather than a mere ridesharing service.
He also added that if the courts decide Uber is "a mere transportation service" bodies are still obliged to let Uber establish itself as a local business and then there is an obligation to let it practice as a business.
St. Francis posted a mere six service errors Thursday, marking the lowest figure in any match this season, and had none in the first set.
Bill Gurley, a general partner at Benchmark Capital, a venture-capital firm, says that companies like Corio are mere "service bureaus" that do not own much in the way of intellectual property.
But the companies will be rather more than mere service providers.
One leading female member of a major British Muslim organisation confided in me that much of the talk of women's rights in Islam is given mere service by Muslim men.
Both academic disciplines theoretically started to focus on this political aspect as a driving force for sustainable and positive structural change by reflecting the hitherto failure of mere service provision that tries to fill the gaps in the deficiency of the structure.
Moreover, he said, while a sponsor is prohibited by law from exercising control over a co-op after five years have passed since the conversion, it would be difficult to establish that mere service on the board after the five years have passed constitutes continued control by the sponsor.
