Sentence examples for mine merely from inspiring English sources
I would say to Robin that if he had been the consultant and I the MP, his career would still have been the one of prime importance, and mine merely a pastime.
I spent the morning trudging back and forth in these toe-cripplers, being shouted at by the second assistant director, who had learned the dog's name but somehow didn't feel obliged to learn mine, merely bawling out, "Oi, you with the dog!" I considered having a word with him about the billing.
It might be a rich seam to mine, but merely serves as an excuse for lightweight anecdotes about teen romance and first kisses.
"As I say in this new book of mine, not merely did I learn to kill," he told Sheldon Hackney, who was then chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, in a 1996 interview about "Doing Battle".
Banks ends his novel -- told in the voice of Hannah Musgrave, the ultimate privileged child of the 1960's, a former Weatherman, a widow of a minister in the Liberian government, a caretaker of threatened chimps -- with the words "in the new history of America, mine was merely the story of an American darling, and had been from the beginning".
There is no sense in which facticity is both mine and merely a matter of fact, since my existence the kind of being I am is also defined by the stance I take toward my facticity.
Mine was merely one story, in which I chronicled my life as an undocumented immigrant for the New York Times Magazine.
Rostow's suggestion of international coöperation was all the more remarkable because Sachs recommended not merely traditional gold mining but prying gold out of the Venezuelan ground using nuclear detonations.
At this stage in your career, those manuscripts are gold just waiting to be mined, but for your adviser they're merely a distraction from some other project that has captured his or her interest.
