Sentence examples for merely took place from inspiring English sources

When George J. Mitchell helped broker peace in Northern Ireland in 1998, he was dealing with people on both sides who were still fighting the Battle of the Boyne, which merely took place back in 1690.

The book doesn't merely take place online.

The wave of financial innovation has not merely taken place in the last eight years, but has been in the works since the 1970s.

The Helsinki summit, by merely taking place, is a second bankable breakthrough for Putin following his World Cup public-relations coup.

Stoker takes place only within the confines of its sleepy isolated little town, with much of the film merely taking place in the rustic old family home.

To that end, Lindelof is making it clear: while "Prometheus" may have started out as a direct prequel to "Alien," the finished film merely takes place in the same universe as Ridley Scott's landmark science-fiction film.

The actual number of patients is thought to be higher, as individual cases of Salmonella gastro-enteritis are not mandatory notifiable in the Netherlands and laboratory confirmation usually merely takes place in a fraction of all patients presenting with diarrhea.

Yet the bankruptcies of Shaw Furniture and its partner, Living.com, stand apart, and not merely because they took place far from New York or Palo Alto.

But few of us, on reflection, would be comfortable with a criminal justice system in which cases were not brought merely because the events took place long ago or because the accused was a celebrity.

"This telephone communication does not in itself corroborate what was said during those calls, it merely confirms that communication took place".

The mushrooming of pockets under the authority of Sikh leaders was thus a feature of the two decades preceding Durrānī's invasion of the Punjab and took place not merely in the eastern Punjab but in the Bari Doab, not far from Lahore itself.