Sentence examples for half to a mere from inspiring English sources

By 1997 manufacturing's share of Hong Kong's jobs was down from nearly half to a mere 15%; its share of output fell to a mere 8.8% (see chart 6).

Their possession may have dropped from 74% in the first half to a mere 69% now, but Mainz are tiring after having had to chase the ball all night.

Dimon had his pay cut in half this year, to a mere $11.5 million, and there was even a brief moment when it seemed he might lose one of his lucrative jobs.

Whether as a result of redefinition or of stripping down, the numbers have fallen since the Brownite high point, from over half a million to a mere 434,000.

At restaurants, salads ordered as a main course at either lunch or dinner dropped by half since 1989, to a mere 5 percent, he said.

At such speeds the cross-Channel trip was reduced to a mere half hour.

In a Times of India editorial Satyarthi points out that the amendment's inclusion of exceptions to the ban on child labor reduces what would otherwise be a truly positive development to a mere half step forward.

And almost half of those gains went to a mere 13,000 taxpayers, the top 0.01percentt, who had an income of at least $3.6 million and an average income of $17 million.

The report underlines how fickle digital fashions can be among this age group, with erstwhile U.K. kids' digital social favorite Bebo rapidly falling from a usage rate of nearly half (49%) back in 2009 to a mere 3% in 2014.

Not surprisingly -- given that our last common ancestor with the chimpanzee was around 5 to 6 million years ago, compared to a mere half a million years for our last common ancestor with the Neanderthal -- it turns out that we are genetically far closer to the Neanderthals than to the apes.

Tetsuo was guilty only of aiding suicide and sentenced to a mere six and a half years in prison.