One final point, my son's school is a mere 0.7 miles from the heart of the new free school campaign.
And it would all be used to take him a mere two hundred miles from Earth.
For example, she'd had to go a mere hundred miles to become a Lady.
He stopped, and let himself be carried along at a mere fifteen miles an hour.
Even if the outside, in this instance, was a mere thirty miles away.
And bear in mind we're looking at a mere hundred square miles or so of the target area here.
Cut your running to a mere 20 miles a week.
The B1 was crawling again at a mere 700 miles an hour.
How could a mere two miles' drive in her car make so much difference to how she felt?
We were down to a mere 150 miles per hour, but the shore of the island was upon us.