Some are a mere nuisance while others are a major threat.

After that the cold and snow should have been mere nuisances.

What was once considered a mere nuisance, at best, has become a huge problem for businesses and the public.

However, they are usually a mere nuisance and do not cause large-scale crop failure.

The mere nuisances he changed to animals or plants.

The water rose above the flood stage in early March, but it was a mere nuisance, compared with the problems wrought a year ago.

Most rashes are not dangerous but rather a mere nuisance.

THE next time anyone considers weeds as mere nuisances, they just may want to think again.

The man had looked annoyed by the battle, as if it were a mere nuisance.

If they succeed over time, military experts say, the guerrillas will be reduced to a mere nuisance.