Sentence examples for merely days from inspiring English sources

In a time when we fear that the true meaning of holidays like Memorial Day and Independence Day are blurred and mistaken for merely days off of work to BBQ, every American should know that despite some of the highly publicized anti-American sentiment in parts of the world, other countries, not as publicized, are the antithesis of that negativity.

Were indictments of state department officials merely days away?

Wiese, experienced as a mountaineer but encumbered by a nine-to-five job, would have merely days.

Mr. O'Neill, the tenant at the O'Dwyer Gardens complex near Surf Avenue, was among the thousands who thought the recovery would take merely days.

Memories of the vanished generation, known as the Desaparecidos, have been kept alive by their surviving children (hijos), some of whom were merely days old when their parents disappeared.

They cite his meeting with US government delegate April Gillespie merely days before, in which she reportedly gave him the impression that the US would not interfere should he choose to invade his neighbour, as an indication that the whole fiasco was far from as simple as it appeared.

Even a fast of merely three days had foiled me.

More ordinary times, she remembers him saying, were merely good days.

She cradled her newborn son, merely six days old and still lacking a name.

"If it's delayed for merely 10 days, we will lose almost $1 billion in highway funds," he said.

And so by last weekend, merely two days after Bob Adler's finale as a market research analyst at a Fortune 200 insurance company, some people in Montclair, N.J., already knew, largely due to the efforts of the gregarious Mr. Adler.