Depending on conditions, this can take hours or merely minutes.
With my two brothers in the front, it was merely minutes before there were soon red lights in our rear view mirror.
When workers are exposed to hexane at much higher levels (800 to 5,000 ppm) for merely minutes, it can irritate eyes and the upper respiratory tract and cause vertigo and headaches.
Just minutes later, he pulled back from that sentiment, saying he would merely slow down a bit.
As it stands, "Heaven's Gate" is merely 219 minutes' worth of pretty pictures, its surfeit of splendid images ultimately numbing the mind and the eye.
In 2010, The Wall Street Journal reported that after you take away commercials, clock stoppages, huddles and just about everything else, a typical three-hour National Football League game contains merely "10 minutes and 43 seconds of actual playing time".
This is a spooky, melancholy work, merely 65 minutes in length but concentrated in its intentions, Beckett-like in its ellipses (though largely without Beckett's wry and painful humor) and finely layered with suggestions that performing is remembering, that remembering is itself living, that the stage is no less than the world.
In contrast, with 16 foci this same area could be scanned in merely 10 minutes.
Leigh Griffiths' opening goal, after just 10 minutes, merely established the state of the game that had been expected: Celtic were better equipped to win, and Rangers had to set about coping with that.
The long works started with the (merely) 100-minute First String Quartet, of 1979, and reached their climax, certainly in length and arguably in beauty, with the Second, of 1983.
The lack of motivation for and confidence in the work as pMTCT counsellor was encountered in contexts characterised by severe shortage of staff and immense time constraints that left the nurse with merely a few minutes to present and discuss the complex pros and cons of the various infant feeding options with each client.
