The phrase "and may be mere" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It can be used to suggest that something might be insignificant or trivial in nature.
Example: "The findings of the study are interesting, but they may be mere coincidences rather than significant results."
Alternatives: "and could be trivial" or "and might be insignificant".
Massachusetts voters may be liberal swingers, and $1.6 billion may be mere chump change in a hedge fund industry with assets now mushrooming to nearly a trillion dollars.
While Resistance and the like may be mere marketing ploys, the benefits of this new addition to festival culture lie in the future audience of techno. .
He described his writings as the "novelty and gossip of the hour" and was not necessarily concerned about facts but with the "material of conversation and speculation, which may be mere rumor, may be the truth".
Random (and so far soft) purges, a ban on foreign bank accounts and anti-American hysteria may be mere half-measures, but even they may be too extreme.
And because even drawings that may be mere doodles are composed and executed with care, they all convey the impression of carrying coded and encrypted information known only to the artist.
University of Chicago professor of behavioral science and marketing Christopher Hsee even observed "People dread idleness, and their professed reasons for activity may be mere justifications for keeping busy". The tables have turned.
At times the author confuses liquidity with capital and debt with equity.Such mistakes may be mere annoyances, but others verge on smears.
And all the tussling over Gaza may be mere shadowboxing for the main event: the prospect of further withdrawals from the West Bank, the core of the settlers' dreams and the Palestinians' aspirations.
In the United States, a Viking stove in the kitchen and a BMW in the driveway may be mere background noise in a sleek thriller; in France, such emblems of class privilege can be grounds for a date with the Widow (a k a the guillotine), metaphorically speaking.
Common theoretical challenges include insufficient construct specificity, examining cognitive processes in isolation (without reference to other aspects of information processing), and interpreting cognitive processes as contributing to psychopathology when they may be mere epiphenomena of clinical problems.
