After another half mile that seemed a mere flash, Turnbull leant over and locked the door.

No mere flash in the pan, Grace Kelly is here to stay.

But if he did survive, he might reach the farthest galaxies in a mere flash.

Something in a shop-front went by him like a mere flash; yet he went back to look at it.

All this had passed through his mind in the merest flash of time.

But he'd also found myriads of violet points so small that at first hed thought they were mere flashes in his retinae.

A mere flash to you, but a long, hard grind out there in a freezing outhouse, young lady.

They were deadly throwing weapons but looked like mere decorative flash.

Aviendha's smile was the merest flash of white teeth.

For the crews, though, the controversies and the heroics that capture public attention are mere flashes on the horizon.