Sentence examples for then mere from inspiring English sources

We talk a little about what were then mere rumours that phone hacking had taken place at the Daily Mirror while Morgan was its editor.

It must mean that if the bedrock principle of any activity -- chess or war, football or diplomacy -- is set aside, then mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.

And then, mere hours after that depth-plumbing, the editor of the Daily Mirror splashed the words "Everyone safe" across his front page, a headline suggesting that the Edwardian age was no stranger to Piers Morgan-style howlers.

The highlight of the night is Pink, who enters through the side door, flanked by three body guards, and insists this is the "PG 13 version", then mere seconds later screams "bitch" in the chorus to mega-hit  "Just Like a Pill", as she stomps her knee-high black boots (stiletto-heeled, but she can still jump, and skip, around in them).

However, this paper has emphasized that there are more implications of digital technology then mere increases in efficiency.

When it comes to "the direction of the impulses towards the general good", then "mere moral teaching will hardly be likely to produce a frame of mind to which trumpet-peals and hymns are appropriate" (Lange 1873 75, 3 299).

The Times was less preoccupied then with mere social merriment than it is today.

Entering Lake Michigan at Chicago, then a mere village, the canal triggered the city's explosive growth.

Since then, a mere handful of films have returned to the war as their primary setting.

We start roughly in the 21st century; then, a mere two minutes later, nip back in time.

And then, a mere minute later in historical time, a "serious" painting could be a Monet haystack.