Sentence examples for a year merely from inspiring English sources
City officials have estimated that it will cost $8 million a year merely to prevent the island's sea wall and its 225 buildings, some of them Georgian-style mansions from the early 19th century, from deteriorating.
There is an absurdity to the idea of raising the average income of more than 7 billion people to more than $100,000 a year merely to ensure that everyone has an income of at least $465.
And shame on Biola University for charging $20,000 a year merely to reinforce parental beliefs and prepare their youth for the intellectual challenges of first-century nomadic goat herding.
It is an expensive sport requiring at least $25,000 a year merely to maintain and train an eventing horse, and more than $100,000 to travel on its most competitive circuit.
- fair-sized living quarters, rent free & with a stipend of $1200 a year for merely entertaining such visitors as dropped in.
The government forecasts that up to 1,500 workers need to be replaced every year merely to maintain the status quo.
This formerly profitable and debt-free club would be paying tens of millions of pounds every year merely to service the interest on these massive loans.
The death of Circuit City and the rise in component prices promise to add 2 to 23% to the prices of the average gadget, making the days of a new TV every few years merely a happy memory.
One single death and a refugee family have moved a nation to whom 200,000 deaths and 11 million refugees had remained for years merely a statistic, and not a very interesting one at that.
It has taken a constituent assembly two years merely to agree on a name the "Constitution of Nepal"—to describe the thing it is trying to write.All the same, profound shifts are quietly under way.
Homeowners, who in America typically lock in a fixed interest rate and level payments for 30 years, merely run a risk that at some point they will experience a major income decline during the mortgage period, putting their home and investment at risk.
