Sentence examples for mere sliver from inspiring English sources

The amount for the fund is a mere sliver of the overall $1.043 trillion federal discretionary budget for next year.

I want a thin, elegant slice, a mere sliver of sponge to nibble with a cup of herb tea.

Actually, it's a mere sliver of his total hoard; he has selected 50 of his strangest, rarest acquisitions for our meeting.

Residents often lack money for upgrades, and a state program that subsidizes reinforcements has reached a mere sliver of the homes that need it.

Still, Barrett produces only 300 million cubic feet of gas a day, a mere sliver of Shell's United States production of 1.7 billion cubic feet.

By contrast, the baby galaxies were readily isolated in "a mere sliver of space," he said, indicating that "the sky must be teeming with these little things".

The shortfalls stemmed from supporting enormous books of now-troubled mortgages on mere slivers of capital.

Something about the question had confused the computer, and its answers came with mere slivers of confidence.

Many of its keys (including, alas, the period and the comma) are mere slivers, half the width of normal keys.

Its tiny screen could show only part of a Web page; its punctuation keys were mere slivers; and it offered only a single e-mail account for each machine.

When I arrived in the country, the Taliban controlled all the cities and most of the countryside; the Northern Alliance, outnumbered and outgunned, ruled mere slivers of land.