Sentence examples for a mere trace from inspiring English sources
The reality check was two small, steamed won tons stuffed with minced mushrooms on a plate with steamed spinach and a mere trace of seasoning.
After all those centuries in a crypt, however, a mere trace of DNA was all that could be extracted from Columbus's bones, and Dr. Lorente has said he is loath to use it indiscriminately.
Bronze is improved in hardness and strength by the addition of a small amount of phosphorus; phosphor bronze may contain 1 or 2 percent phosphorus in the ingot and a mere trace after casting, but its strength is nonetheless enhanced for such applications as pump plungers, valves, and bushings.
Alloys prepared in this way, known as phosphor bronzes, may contain only about 1 percent phosphorus in the ingot and a mere trace after casting, but their value is nevertheless enhanced for purposes in which a hard, strong metal is required, as for pumps, plungers, valves, and the bushings of bearings.
Since anaphylactic shock can be triggered by a mere trace of an allergen (such as the dairy residue on a serving spoon or the wheat or egg proteins in a pot of water used to boil noodles), you may want to double-check food preparation methods before each meal.
As a consequence, the quantity of the SOD1L126delTT mutant is a mere trace in patients with this mutation [6], [9].
Designer Tom Pye's craggy Aran coastline is at one with the sea, a rectangle of light marking out a mere tracing of Maurya's home.
Though this cub is as yet a mere optimistic trace in Tian Tian's "acute protein analysis", it has long existed in the spreadsheets of accountants who have spent years planning for what they already called the "panda premium scenario".
In the other study, Anne Brunet, a geneticist at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, and colleagues found that in nematodes, the mere trace of one sex also seems to reduce the survival of the other.
She also says that the perfume industry has informed EU authorities that "it is technically possible" to remove the offending molecules from oakmoss extract beyond mere trace levels.
