As of 2012, a mere six years after his career began, Young was not playing professional football.

The couch is a mere 25 or so years old.

What if she had missed by a mere ten years, he thought.

How, in the space of a mere three years, did we get from there to here?

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

In a mere three to four hundred years 'we have a great future!

She, with her mere nine years of experience, knew him better than anyone.

He was in India for a mere seven years, from 1863 to 1870.

Life had been so full of promise a mere two years before.

Her school had been open for a mere eight years.