"literally mentioned" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when something was actually mentioned or brought up during a conversation or meeting, often for emphasis. For example: "During the presentation, the CEO literally mentioned that they would be expanding into the Asian market next year."
Although other FPs did not literally mention a lack of standards, this lack became clear when comparing their contradictory responses to a question about shortcomings of their training programme.
I have remarked before how odd it is that in the legion of books published about The Beatles, Clifford's role is literally never mentioned.
But dried chiles were sold to individuals/groups who do postharvest processing (drying and packing), known locally as " secadoras" (literally, "dryer"—mentioned by 38% of informants), or sold directly to smaller middlemen, known in Mexico as " coyotes" (mentioned by 25% of informants), who come to the farms with their teams and pick the fields themselves.
Later, he described the enemy as "little bands of individuals, literally criminal minded," mentioned "a force" that might take over the Middle East and said that the "credibility on a global scale" of American power was at stake.
Then the colour drains from their faces, and as soon as PMT is mentioned, they literally run from the room.
Alas, with the privatization and charterization of our city's (and nation's) public schools, it is not inconceivable that Dewey, and the other schools mentioned, will literally be nothing more than "rest stops"—on the way to the eternal resting place of New York's legacy of free and equal education.
Of course, it's highly unlikely that the country will be accepted (given literally everything I've mentioned).
All this is further complicated by Cruz's fervent devotion to Israel: He has a framed photo of Bibi Netanyahu posing with him and his wife hanging in his office and, as Alberta notes, has mentioned Israel literally thousands of times on the Senate floor.
No one – literally, no one – mentions Boris Johnson, David Cameron, Michael Gove, Jeremy Corbyn or Nigel Farage.
It's honoring this person who gave their life to you -- not to mention literally gave you life -- and taking their fragile body in your hands like a newborn, tending to their every need.
