Sentence examples for back to a mere from inspiring English sources

Once settled he launched, slapping Vettori for six and then reeling a potentially tricky target back to a mere formality.

Plans for the Kingdom Tower, a mile-high skyscraper in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, were recently scaled back to a mere 1km due to "unsuitable geology".

But one can't help but think back to a mere seven months ago when exit polls confidently predicted a John Kerry victory in the United States.

Despite another efficiently high-scoring effort from Carmelo Anthony (29 points on 11 of 19 shooting), Tuesday night's loss to the Bulls dropped the Knicks back to a mere one-game lead over the Bucks for the conference's eighth and final playoff slot.

Just two days after official figures showed that inflation had fallen back to a mere 0.5% in May, the ECB's governing council took three new steps to try to get it heading back towards its target of almost 2%.First, the ECB has made history by becoming the first big central bank to go negative.

It used to be 24 soldiers to each policeman, but, since the IRA restored its ceasefire in 1997, it has been cut back to a mere 12. Colour Sergeant "The Law" Ruddy, 33, from Newcastle, was taking his team of 16 men on to the streets.

It is already quite difficult to think back to a time – a mere two years ago – when United were being rebuffed in most of their approaches, led up the garden path by Everton and duped by unauthorised third parties in Spain.

B1 WEEKEND E1-34; E35-42 Les Miz to Return (It was Gone?) Giving new meaning to the term "revival," Cameron Mackintosh has decided to bring his long-running hit "Les Misérables" back to Broadway a mere three and a half years after closing a 16-year run.

At 0900 UTC, the JTWC upgraded Faye back to a typhoon, just a mere 27 hours after the agency discontinued watching the system for the first time.

Having raced to 4,575 points - its highest level since April 28 - the FTSE 100 index fell back to finish a mere 2.8 points higher at 4,548.4 as Wall Street opened lower after a profits warning from Coca-Cola and the Nasdaq came under pressure from Goldman Sachs downgrading its rating on the computer software and hardware sectors.

After briefly flirting with yields as high as 4.64% last month, the ten-year yield is back down to a mere 4.1% currently, despite a cumulative 200 bps hike in the Fed funds target, rising price pressures and a healthy pace of job creation.