Sentence examples for for a mere three years from inspiring English sources

It was privately owned for a mere three years (between 1991 and 1994).

A mere three years ago, we watched Woody Harrelson's desperate search for Hostess Twinkies in Zombieland.

That took a mere three years.

They were written a mere three years apart.

His own term in office is a mere three years.

Only postponed for a mere sixty years.

One of them had been confined for a mere two years, and his release was imminent.

Cuba had been an independent republic for a mere twenty-four years.

He was in India for a mere seven years, from 1863 to 1870.

When you are ruled by dynasties for 4,000 years, a family that produces two American presidents ruling for a mere four years and a couple of months is about as significant as a single stone in the Great Wall.

It's an almost equally quick jaunt to the dream house the couple designed and built, then occupied for a mere four years before rethinking the matter and moving out at the end of February.