Sentence examples for mere four decades from inspiring English sources
Now, a mere four decades later, the triangular four-and-a-half-acre park is almost ready for its first visitors.
Sunderland won the title in 1936-37, whish is comparatively recent by north-east standards, and are the last of region's clubs to lift the FA Cup (a mere four decades ago) which makes the media's continued focus on St James Parkk all the more inexplicable to Wearsiders.
To think of the varieties of vegetables we can now buy at the supermarket, the number of Indian shops stocking the most authentic spices and Indian vegetables that can't be found elsewhere... a mere four decades later.
It was a mere three decades.
A mere three decades in, the dream was effectively over.
From conflict to domesticity to conflict, then, in a mere six decades.
A mere eight decades later, the technology may at last come to fruition.
Workers on the site report a shortage of building materials, but they expect the first patients before the year is out, a mere two decades late.
Acting with its usual celerity, the Admiralty instituted the practice of issuing lime juice rations to sailors a mere two decades later, in 1795.
This year the city's second Metro line opened – a mere two decades after the launch of the first – connecting central Warsaw with the neighbourhoods on the east side of the Vistula river, such as Praga.
The decline of the studio system, the rise of television-all the forces that were eating away at the old Hollywood-would enable Wasserman, in a mere two decades, to build an empire of his own.
