Sentence examples for a mere six directors from inspiring English sources

A mere six directors were able to put together 10 or more films.

Apple Store, W1, Tue; Curzon Mayfair, W1, Thu Phelim O'Neill For a mime artist turned film director with a mere six features to his credit, Jacques Tati's continuing influence on slapstick comedy and social commentary is truly remarkable – though less so when watching one of Tati's films, which have the rare ability to keep even today's cynical audiences in fits of laughter.

That number was a mere six digits.

A mere six states are still in play.

Our trip, he said, would take a mere six hours.

(He wrote the script in a mere six days).

That was a mere six weeks ago.

Certainly it's an irony worth contemplating that, as the columnist Geneva Overholser has pointed out, the press largely ignored public Senate testimony a mere seven months ago in which the C.I.A. director, George Tenet, said that Mr. bin Laden's "global network" was the "most immediate and serious" terrorist threat to America.

Today's VICE question of the day comes courtesy of Anthony Scaramucci who lasted a mere ten days in his job as communications director at the White House.

The young Argentinean director Matías Piñeiro packs an amazing amount of action and thought into a mere sixty-five minutes with his new feature, "The Princess of France" (Oct. 5-6).

But the Metropolitan Opera faced just such a problem in July, when Peter Stein, a German director whose would-be debut was trumpeted by the house, withdrew a mere three months before his production of Mussorgsky's "Boris Godunov" was to open.