Although such rules are neither true nor false, they elucidate the "proper" use of such constants, a formulation suggesting that the source of the necessity is deeper than mere linguistic usage.
She demonstrates how effective her breathing gear is, showing me before and after pictures of the filters – blanche white and then mousy grey respectively – after a mere month of usage outside.
Some such usages are mere boasting.
Curious would-be users will be repelled by the nontrivial expense of mere experimentation, never mind ongoing usage.
Bernard Harrison attempts to meet this challenge by distinguishing the sorts of inappropriateness that result from violations of category facts (such as the former) from those that result from mere violations of facts of usage (the latter) (1965, 315 16).
In 2010, the company said that its highest usage for the entire year came mere seconds after midnight in Japan, when users rushed the site to post messages welcoming in the new year on the social network.
The "rules" of grammar are not mere technical instructions from on-high for correct usage; rather, they express the norms for meaningful language.
While I recognize that agriculture is an important part of our state's fiscal well-being, the 80percentt water usage it accounts for corresponds to a mere 2percentt of the state's overall economy.
