Sentence examples for mere run from inspiring English sources

The Mets were leading by a mere run, the Pittsburgh Pirates were threatening and there were still three innings left.

He hit his home runs in the second and sixth innings, and when he went to the plate as the leadoff batter in the eighth, the Angels were losing by a mere run.

Scott Brosius, who had singled following a walk to Posada, followed him home with the run that gave the Yankees their only victory whose margin was not a mere run.

As it turned out, however, the last election was a mere test run for the monetary extravaganza that is 2012.

Some scholars over the centuries have even contended that the jihad doctrine does not allow the overthrow of a mere run-of-the-mill oppressor, but only one who is actively preventing people from practicing their religion.

But if mere mortals run your firm, or if you're facing an extremely unpredictable future, the economics of error suggest an open system is safer.

How could a mere lawyer run a complex chemicals combine?

The Cubs offense ranked third during the regular season in scoring (4.99 runs per contest), but has produced a mere seven runs in five games (1.4 per contest).

Australia won the Fourth Test at Old Trafford by a mere three runs with Trumble taking ten wickets for the match.

The arithmetic was easy, deceptively so: 300 runs in the day, divided by three sessions, equalled a mere 100 runs per session, or 3.3 an over, no challenge at all for the West Indies captain and double world record-holder Brian Lara batting with his young, stylish vice-captain Ramnaresh Sarwan.

England may have scored slowly on Friday as they attempted to grind towards the follow-on target - a mere 65 runs in a moribund morning session, a sedentary afternoon when the run-rate barely edged above two, just 66 in 34 overs in the evening - but the excuses are not hard to find.