For the Yankees, $50 million is a mere offering to placate the baseball gods.
In the early 2000s, researchers began exploring the role of glia, star-shaped immune cells in the brain and spinal cord, which were traditionally thought to function as mere "housekeepers," offering structural support for neurons and removing debris.
This is no mere chart-topper offering idle political endorsements or droning on about climate change.
Mr Obama then set himself above mere partisanship by offering the vague outline of a plan, the American Jobs Act, he characterised as plain good sense, the sort of thing anyone of any party who gives a fig about the millions suffering economically must support.
The Arsenal vice-chairman, David Dein, will not meet his £60,000 a week pay demand, offering a mere £55,000 a week.
Then there is its American, dear-god-hide-it-in-the-attic sibling, a wretched creature offering a mere 34g of satisfaction.
After all, who in his right mind would seek a lousy old patent offering a mere 20 years of protection when copyright can provide monopoly rights for up to 70 years after the author's death?
The movie's swing and energy are dubious, offering a mere gloss of normalcy to the frustrations and injustices, the backroom deals and sub rosa violence of daily life.
By the essay's end, Watkins has shrugged off any pretense of disinterest or mere observational curiosity, instead offering "some ideas" that gather a force akin to the preacher's fire.
Focus groups have suggested that offering a mere year or two of heavenly bliss, coupled with the threat of a single hour spent bathing in hot pitch and being harassed by demons, would generate ninety-seven per cent of the current program's salutary effect on mortal behavior.
