Sentence examples for not mere years from inspiring English sources

In Scotland, not mere years but decades add distinction.

This was not mere luck of years of playing.

Amid the financial crisis sweeping through Russia, the oligarchs, the country's financial and industrial elite, are faced with a dilemma they did not anticipate a mere year ago: how not to go broke?

There has even been talk (idiotic talk, but talk nonetheless) of resentful industry folk claiming an unfair advantage on Linklater's part, given that he had years, and not mere months, to hone his pet project.

"Not anymore!" A mere year and a half ago, Ms. DeLillo, a divorced mother of three, was a legal secretary with the pent-up heart of an entertainer.

It is not mere chance that one sees the same runners, year in and year out, in front of the bulls.

They are not mere companions.

This is not mere hijacking.

"For them these are not mere letters or mere words.

This is not mere nostalgia.

Words are not mere words.