Sentence examples for was merely half from inspiring English sources

That was merely half the problem.

When he first fixed his gaze upon me, I was merely half the player I am now and he painstakingly developed me.

After signing a false confession, she was given a softer billet, where she was merely half-starved and subjected to 19 hours of slave labour a day.In the camps, prisoners have to memorise rules such as "Adore Kim Jong Il with all your heart," and informers report disloyal sleep-talk, which is punishable by death.

Mr. Kane is the first to admit that he is merely half of a successful partnership.

And the new BBC board, of course, is merely half of the story.

To date, Erice has made only two more films: South, which is merely half a story, never completed, and The Quince Tree Sun, one of the most extraordinary films about painting ever conceived.

$60 would be merely half price — $50, why that's positively generous!

But this is merely half the problem.

After that, the spirit realm is almost always designated by being merely half-there.

There can surely no clichés about this being merely half-time.

United's other opportunities were merely half-chances, with the starting XI - with an average age of 24 - on the back foot for much of the match against a side fighting for their Champions League future.