And as a comic variant on a Bardic pile-up, recent weeks have welcomed "Much Ado About Nothing" twice over, their openings separated by merely five nights and the river Thames.
Studies of H3.3, a histone variant that differs with canonical H3 by merely four amino acids and that plays a critical role in embryonic development and gene expression in adulthood, illustrate how small sequence variations in histones can generate distinct functions (Elsaesser et al., 2010).
And so by last weekend, merely two days after Bob Adler's finale as a market research analyst at a Fortune 200 insurance company, some people in Montclair, N.J., already knew, largely due to the efforts of the gregarious Mr. Adler.
The opposite party claimed that the principle of unanimity had been breached by the obstructive conduct of merely three cardinals of the Imperial faction, who stubbornly refused to recognize the candidate desired by the rest of the Sacred College.
The requirements of an integrated sequence of formats are not met by merely running three or more different formats in parallel and feeding the output of each component as input into the next component.
Why, that's merely three digits!
The controversial recognition of Kosovo by several states in 2008 as well as the equally questionable recognition of Abkhazia and South Ossetia by Russia are merely two aspects.
Duality, in mathematics, principle whereby one true statement can be obtained from another by merely interchanging two words.
A photograph of a piece by Mr. Rickey shows merely one of its possible iterations.
Paul Ince became the 39th boss to be spat out of the revolving managerial door this season in the four English divisions when he left relegation-threatened Notts County on Sunday evening by mutual consent after merely five months at the helm.
