Sentence examples for mere scattering from inspiring English sources

However, in the Old World, a mere scattering of pre-Columbian syphilis candidates have been unearthed.

Add fresh, young Croatian wines and a mere scattering of tourists and you're in gourmet heaven.

The nuts are reduced to a mere scattering of toasted cashews and flaked almonds and, although the combination of flavours is a good one, it's more of a warm salad than a nut roast – and not one that would be happy on the same plate as many of the usual Christmas accompaniments.

At the same time, we Australians see a reason behind the decline in our national tennis prestige, where grand-slam tournaments pass without an Australian player, male or female, reaching the second week and with a mere scattering in the first.

There is finally a unity in these poems, but it's the kind we find when what had looked like a mere scatter of stars suddenly discloses the shape of a known constellation.

Rather than confront an opponent, Obama treated his listeners as barely educable children, while propping himself on formulas any clever child would recognize as mere caption-phrases, scattered and unconnected.

Even if the minimum was detected in several experiments, it was not highlighted or it was considered as a mere consequence of the scattering of experimental data.

It may seem incredible to think it, but back in 2000, there were a mere 394 million Internet users scattered across the world.

This poses a problem when comparing with results from the deterministic Cosserat continuum model: On the level of single realizations, we cannot be sure whether differences are systematic (the Cosserat continuum provides an inaccurate or even inadequate representation of the beam systems) or whether they are a mere reflection of the inherent scatter between different beam system realizations.

Looking uptown from my office window I could count on only a small scatter of trees in the International Paper Plaza, mere microdots of green.

Cornwall's 480,000 people are scattered: the biggest town, St Austell, has a mere 21,000 souls.