Sentence examples for mere household from inspiring English sources

So now Nick, with his new owners, was attending the show as a mere household pet.

But during the 14th century, kings began to find in Parliament a useful means of raising extraordinary supply; and, no longer financially essential, the Wardrobe gradually reverted to the position of a mere household department.

Before this period, the few black slaves taken from time to time across the Sahara would have been seen on the far side of the Mediterranean as mere exotic household ornaments.

The smallest administrative unit is of a mere ten households.

Last year's 22-44 teaveragedged a 0.40 (the equivalent of a mere 30,000 households or 39,000 viewers).

The J. E. is no mere dispenser of household hints of the "peanut butter will lift stains out of carpeting" variety.

And a mere 3% of households received over half of their total income during that period from welfare.

The ITU's figures show that just as mobile cellular subscriptions have overtaken those of fixed phone subs, mobile broadband subscriptions (47.2%) have now overtaken not only fixed-broadband subscriptions (mere 10.8%), but households with Internet access (46.4%).

Beyond the mere impact on households' annual energy demand, in focus of most existing research in the field, particular emphasis will be given to the peak load development, which is considered increasingly relevant for balancing supply and demand and maintaining security of supply.

The country has by far the highest rate of child mortality in the region, its proportion of underweight children grew between 1993 and 2000, only 12 per cent of Cambodian babies are exclusively breastfed and a mere 14 per cent of households consume iodized salt.

Black Americans earn about 60% of what white Americans do, and accumulated wealth among typical black households is a mere 6% of the typical white household.