Rather than buy a second Keurig for a mere half year, I would use the occasion to rekindle my earlier obsession with the whole routine of making freshly ground coffee in a press.
While Selkirk was stranded for a mere four years, the fictional Crusoe spends 28 years, two months and 19 days as a castaway, as he meticulously notes in his journal.
Consider the fact that the planet is over 4 billion years old, life has existed for on it for over 500m years and humans have been here for a mere 100,000 years or so.
The secretary, for instance, attended Princeton for a mere four years as an undergraduate, whereas I spent eight years there as a graduate student; and whereas he was a famous wrestler during college, impressing fans with his determination on the mats, my own wrestling matches with Old Nassau's varsity athletes took place under other circumstances.
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.
Only postponed for a mere sixty years.
Cuba had been an independent republic for a mere twenty-four years.
Mind you, Mr. Waltuch is practically an arriviste, having played for a mere 30 years.
He was in India for a mere seven years, from 1863 to 1870.
