Instead she had made it as far as Copper Mountain (a mere 20 minutes on a good day down the road) before the road uniforms came in and shut her plans down, leaving her with no wifi and bad cask wine on the side of the road in a run down tavern.
The Tirolean Alps are young mountains – a mere 160 million years old – which is why their peaks are high.
To put it a less sinister way, the stage's mountains were mere appetizers for Sunday, with four first-category and two second-category climbs, and for Monday, with three fourth-category and one first-category climbs capped by two rated beyond category.
In the opening sequence, a young Elgar bounds on his pony up a hillside, only to appear, suddenly, as a mere dot on a high mountain.
The management literature on older workers is a mere molehill compared with the mountain devoted to recruiting and retaining the young.Companies are still stuck with an antiquated model for dealing with ageing, which assumes that people should get pay rises and promotions on the basis of age and then disappear when they reach retirement.
The obvious ones are Beethoven's nine symphonies in a single day, and Wagner's Ring Cycle in 24 hours, but those have both been done (although never at the Proms in such a short space of time) and are mere foothills compared to the mountain ranges of potential musical cycles out there.
Still, Bustelo is a mere bean compared with the mountains of the industry, with about a 1percentt market share of ground coffee retail sales, according to Information Resources Inc., a market research firm.
"Cezanne did 20 or 30 views of this mountain, many of them mere exercises.
They're the survivors of a mountain growth spurt a mere 13 million years long--outrageously speedy compared to the tens or hundreds of millions of years geologists thought mountains needed to grow.
For Greek Cypriots, the harbor town of Kyrenia was suddenly a mere 20-minute trip over the mountains north of Nicosia.
