Sentence examples for mere scrap from inspiring English sources

"The employment contract in many factories here is a mere scrap of paper," says Liu Kaiming, director of the Institute of Contemporary Observation, a labor rights group in Shenzhen.

It pays to be cautious: a mere scrap is all that's left of the Coronation Carpet's mate, on display at Berlin's Museum of Islamic Art.

The 22.5 million stop requests Catalog Choice has processed over the past five years are a mere scrap of the some 85 billion pieces of junk mail that landed in American mailboxes in 2011.

Less than hoped for, perhaps, but more than anticipated: solid concentrations of the early sculptures and the later paintings; mere scraps of the great environments that came between.

The remainder of the top five films will be left to skirmish over mere scraps, led by Sony's ensemble hit "Think Like a Man" at just under $10 million in its third weekend out.

For its part, Pakistan is holding on to tens of thousands of documents taken from the Abbottabad house, although the Pakistani security official described these as mere "scraps" compared with the vast amount of information held by the US.

The appetiser to Steven Gerrard's long-range strike in the FA Cup final the previous year (v West Ham, Millennium Stadium) is by contrast mere scraps: lumpy ball into the box, defensive header, mishit clearance.

Neither was a sure thing, but these are mere scraps of victory, indeed.

Maddox, heir to an uncle famous both for his investigations and his honor, intently hunts down the papers but finds much, much more than mere scraps of information.

After the expansive, free-running first half, both sides were eager for the merest scrap now.

I had parboiled them, but, even then, rubbing off their papery brown skin (the merest scrap will turn the sauce bitter) is a monstrous task that also rubs the skin off your fingers.