Sentence examples for a mere smattering from inspiring English sources
Scholars have combed the Dutch city of Delft's civic records and found a mere smattering of facts, recently enhanced by the excellent website essentialvermeer.com.
Apart from his likes and dislikes, and a mere smattering of the sort of personal history, reminiscences and portraits of friends that usually make up an autobiography, the main focus of "Errata" is confessional.
The closest 18th century analogue of modern claim construction seems, then, to have been the construction of specifications, and as to that function the mere smattering of patent cases that we have from this period [n.4] shows no established jury practice sufficient to support an argument by analogy that today's construction of a claim should be a guaranteed jury issue.
However, five minutes away, on the bustling Bucknall New Road, there was only the merest smattering of election posters – all Labour – and just about everyone I met talked about the byelection as a matter of indifference.
Earlier in the day, a smattering of frat brothers and sorority sisters, a mere fraction of 30,000, stood on the sand surrounding the Nautical Beachfront Resort epicenter of SWATopia, the "West Coast's Largest Spring Break Event".
A mere chardonnay, perhaps.
Unemployment is a mere 2.9%.
Afghanistan had a mere 0.03.
