Sentence examples for a mere sliver of from inspiring English sources

The amount for the fund is a mere sliver of the overall $1.043 trillion federal discretionary budget for next year.

I want a thin, elegant slice, a mere sliver of sponge to nibble with a cup of herb tea.

Actually, it's a mere sliver of his total hoard; he has selected 50 of his strangest, rarest acquisitions for our meeting.

Residents often lack money for upgrades, and a state program that subsidizes reinforcements has reached a mere sliver of the homes that need it.

Still, Barrett produces only 300 million cubic feet of gas a day, a mere sliver of Shell's United States production of 1.7 billion cubic feet.

By contrast, the baby galaxies were readily isolated in "a mere sliver of space," he said, indicating that "the sky must be teeming with these little things".

He is dwarfed by the immensity of his craft, which itself is reduced to a mere sliver, near the beginning of the film, when it docks at Yorkville — a planet-size base that hangs in the heavens like a Christmas bauble, with inverted boulevards and skyscrapers curving around inside.

A glance upwards, however, reminds you that everything in Chile is squashed between the Andes and a lower coastal mountain range, green, arable land often a mere sliver beside a wall of barren rock.

The space is a mere sliver, about half the size of Tía Pol, and there aren't any tables — you pull a stool up to the bar or you stand.

The space is a mere sliver, about half the size of Tía Pol, and there aren't any tables you pull a stool up to the bar or you stand.

She is a shapeshifter, slinking away from a full orb to a mere sliver and back again.