Sentence examples for this year merely from inspiring English sources

What other players call the "dog days" of the season are, to Martin Brodeur, this year merely a tune-up for the post-season to come.

The business with St. John's, just one of several schools hounded by the N.C.A.A. this year, merely lowered the boiling point.

RTDNA noted in its emailed complaint that nearly three dozen journalists have been assaulted in the U.S. this year "merely for performing their Constitutionally-guaranteed duty to seek and report the truth".

The upheavals of the past three years merely strengthened this worldview.

The mutiny of 1857 merely finished off the process.

The new library wasn't completed until 2001; merely negotiating the contracts took until 1993.

The next report in 1995 merely suggested a link between rising temperatures and human activity.

Spanish intervention in the war in 1761 merely enabled the British to seize Havana and Manila.

The events of this year's Arab spring merely emphasised that apparent marginalisation.

The sanctions after Hamas was elected in January 2006 merely accelerated these problems.

The non-dom loophole was intended, back in 1914, merely for "resident foreigners".