Five weeks after the end of a bitter presidential election, it hasn't ended at all: It's merely reached a new phase in which the things we buy are seen as surrogates for the people we voted for.
For Mahmoud Salem, a.k.a. the Sandmonkey, Egypt's revolution has merely reached the end of its first chapter.
He merely reached the fourth round.
We strongly suspect that we have now merely reached the tip of the iceberg.
He merely reached out and rested his hand on the small of her back.
The moment has been creeping up on us for the past 15 years and has merely reached the doors of Costa now.
Even then, he said, he was grateful that the musicians merely reached the end without "a disaster".
No knife, no fork: she merely reached for a spike, as if pulling out the pin, then dunked her involucral leaf in the butter and raised it to her mouth.
The Court of Appeals affirmed, finding that the District Court had merely "reached different conclusions than the state court in applying federal constitutional standards to (the) facts," Imbler v. California, 424 F.2d 632, 632 and certiorari was denied, 400 U.S. 865, 91 S.Ct.
In 1980, only 31.1percentt of the population was 45 or older, and in 1990, the median age merely reached 32.3 years, an increase of 3.4 years – not the predicted 15.1 – over 50 years.
On the basis of Table 1, it could be seen that the pure methanol reacted at a nearly full conversion over both the Catalyst I and Catalyst II, while the conversion over the γ-alumina merely reached 83.33 wt%.
