Sentence examples for are given a mere from inspiring English sources

In contrast, football players are given a mere yellow card (which does not automatically mean leaving play) for a first offence.

Relatives are told of the execution only after the fact and are given a mere 24 hours to collect the body.

At Gemma, which opened this summer in the Bowery, the menu offers so much crudi and antipasti and carni and crostini that the secondi, presumably the main event, are given a mere two and half inches of space at the bottom of a 14-inch-long menu.

The architects were given a mere 10 days to prepare an extensive set of plans.

Anthony Bennett Hospital volunteer At 16, Great Ormond Street Hospital patient Anthony of Greenford, west London was given a mere 11 per cent chance after contracting life threatening conditions, including pneumonia.

He and his staff were given a mere 20-minute heads-up by German security before Mr. Clinton and company arrived.

They were given a mere three weeks to complete the soundtrack, as it had to be ready for the premiere at the Cannes film festival.

A husband who murdered his wife in 2009 after she had reported domestic violence to the police eight times was given a mere six-and-a-half-year prison sentence for "ill-treatment" of his wife.

So leave MPs are outraged that they are not being given a third opportunity to vote on the May deal, yet scoff contemptuously at the idea that the public should be given a mere second chance to vote.

As one of those customers myself, I felt irritated that my earlier decision to spend an extra $2 for DVDs was not honored or rewarded in any way; even if I had been informed that existing bundlers were being given a mere $1 discount over new subscribers, I would have felt my early loyalty to Netflix was being honored.

Although class sizes were comparable to my previous assignment, I met only with those students who needed a little extra help and was given a mere 4 hours of ?office time? to do so.