She left Congress after only three terms, a mere six years.

And he would not stop with a mere two billion lives.

He had been on the run a mere two days.

The man had been in the job for a mere two weeks, after all.

And I would feel better at the mere sound of his voice!

But you take on too much for any mere woman.

In a mere two hours his problems would be over.

I knew better than anyone what a person could do with mere words.

Cut your running to a mere 20 miles a week.

And again her voice said something more than mere words.

Yet I did not see anything at first in the mere story.

But the mere thought of actually going out in public never really hit me.

How could she tell a mere boy what had happened?

When I saw her again, she was no longer a mere girl.

Something is being done to me and by a mere thing, here in my own house.

The mere thought made him feel better, though of course he could do no such thing.

In the second game, it lost by a mere 5 points.

But now, and perhaps too late, many want to go beyond mere knowledge.

A mere 8 percent said that government should do more.

The mere fact of the meeting alone will not be good enough.

Her school had been open for a mere eight years.

How a race can change in a mere three weeks.

A mere 0.1 percent had used it in the past month.

She put her hand on his and let it rest mere a moment.

As it turned out, mere was one not too far away.