Sentence examples for use of a mere from inspiring English sources

The use of a mere few hundred million hectares of fertile land would have to compete with all the other problems the biofuel wand is meant to magic away, such as the use of petroleum in cars and kerosene in planes, as well as the minor issue of feeding the world's people.

Our current model is simplistic: it makes use of a mere frequency count of the geographic locations of tweets to assign individuals to a home and work location.

Use the power of a mere caring glimpse, a short small smile.

Against this theme, Wittgenstein's point was that a rule by itself is dead it is like a ruler in the hands of someone who does not know how to use it, a mere stick of wood.

That core use is a mere 50,000 tonnes of CO2 – a figure dwarfed by the personal energy use of the university's 35,000 population from commuting, domestic travel, computer use and daily living.

"Such rare and extreme events give us a unique chance to use a mere trickle of infalling matter to understand the physics of one of the most bizarre objects in our galaxy," said Gabriele Ponti of the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Garching, Germany, a co-author on the study, in a statement.

Caribbean cuisine makes far more use of nutmeg than a mere grating of it in eggnog.

We must demand more accountability from both our press and our government in order for human rights to be honored as they should be, instead of being used as a mere bludgeon for the U.S. to wield against countries which are simply too independent for its liking.

The result was the pressurised metered-dose inhaler (pMDI), said to have taken less than two years to take from concept to clinical use – a mere blink of the eye compared with modern research and development periods.

Intel and Microsoft have dominated the PC arena for almost two decades, but PCs use a mere 10% of the world's chips.

At present the Windows Phone operating system is used in a mere 3% of smartphones.