But a while was a mere five or six seconds.
It takes a mere 6.7 seconds to go from 0 to 60.
Yet it all took place in a matter of mere seconds.
Good show, although you missed being the first post by mere seconds.
The four decades they'd been studied were mere seconds of their history.
Will and Sylvia are left with mere seconds to live.
In what seemed like mere seconds the light on the little square control panel went red.
It seemed to take him mere seconds to have a small flame going.
Hard acceleration, for example, will get you from the stop sign to 60 miles an hour in a mere 6.9 seconds.
It took a mere 27 seconds for them to seize the lead.