Sentence examples for merely higher from inspiring English sources

Often they were merely higher elementary schools, rehearsing their students for a year in basic reading and arithmetic, rectitude and piety, some history, mathematics, and physiology, and, if they survived, a rudimentary pedagogy.

It was reminiscent of the plethora of boring Android phones at the time — merely higher quality than them, not different.

Other performers have made these women seem not merely high-society snobs but the three Fates.

Often the impulses were cynical, often merely high spirited, never bitter.

It takes Afghanistan from almost off-the-scale to the merely high.

It takes Afghanistan from off the scale to the merely high.

On the other hand, any form of protein is likely to be effective, it concludes, not merely high-protein shakes and supplements.

Many paintings come across as merely high-polish sociological data, with the work of figures like François Boucher, Hubert Robert and Louis-Léopold Boilly something more than that.

While managers are famous for not lasting long, they are merely high-profile representatives of a wider British labour market, where the typical new job lasts 15 months.

So Nigeria (the biggest economy in Africa, Egypt and Argentinaallll figure high on the red list of countries where there is a "very high risk" of conflict threatening the political order, with Brazil, South Africa and China merely "high risk".

In November of that year she and 20 scholars signed a letter to the Financial Times that argued a healthy banking system must be the goal, not merely "high returns for banks' shareholders and managers, with taxpayers picking up losses and economies suffering the fallout". From there, she continued to write papers, comment letters, and op-eds, expanding her network further.