Sentence examples for merely two days from inspiring English sources

My hands and nail beds were coated with a dark grainy soot At the end of the day, we three "children" went downtown to the vault where my sister and I had placed our mother's jewelry merely two days after she was buried.

Even a fast of merely three days had foiled me.

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

For the record: that was merely six days ago.

Some headed straight to Tahrir Square to begin a camp out and on Tuesday, merely five days after the decree had been issued, the people responded with a mass mobilization.

Secretary of State Kerry's considerable diplomatic accomplishment was not worked out merely four days in early September, as his critics suggested [with some warrant if one were only aware of the "optics". In fact, however, plan for removal of poison gas had been in draft for months.

Leave aside for the moment though it is hard the crass partisanship of the Republican leaders in the Senate, who allowed merely one day's debate on the issue before escorting it to the scaffold.

You know your family company is a big deal when people gauge how the national economy is doing based on merely one day of its sales.

The supposed turnaround came merely one day after the Iraqi parliament unanimously scorned the U.N.'s call for disarmament; the rebuff was characterized by Secretary of State Colin Powell Colin Powell as "not to be taken seriously…The power that exists [in Iraq] exists in the hands of Saddam Hussein, and we'll wait to see what he says".

True, it seems that giving £5 towards research that may or may not save lives at some unspecified point in the future is less worthwhile than giving £5 that will provide life-saving treatment tomorrow; but it cannot be the case that a guaranteed and necessary rescue tomorrow outweighs a guaranteed and necessary rescue in two days' time, merely because the latter is further in the future.

In fact, it had merely made him a marked man: two days later, as Wired reported, Anonymous "took down [HBGary Federal's] website, stole his emails, deleted the company's backup data, trashed Barr's Twitter account and remotely wiped his iPad".