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Example sentences for "mere question"

  • Now such a result, theoretically at least, is possible, for it is a mere question of potential or speed.

  • All knew and felt instinctively that the king was in the toils, that he could not have broken through the network spread for him, and that it was a mere question of days as to when he would be forced to surrender.

  • Indeed, it was generally supposed that it was a mere question of time before Mademoiselle d'Antin should take the veil.

  • Even if Princess Montefiano makes difficulties, it is a mere question of time.

  • If in this I am correct, then the passage of the present bill is a mere question of policy and interest.

  • But now we must think differently, for now we know that everywhere we have to deal with the same forces, and that it is a mere question of inventing proper methods or apparatus for rendering them available.

  • But if it were a mere question of interest or expediency, they would still reject it.

  • Otherwise it appeared to be a mere question of time.

  • The surrounding country is one of the most beautiful and fertile imaginable, and its rise to wealth and populousness must be a mere question of time, and that time hurried on by a speed that is astonishing.

  • It becomes a mere question of personal preference, of like and dislike.

  • No emotion can enter here; it is a mere question of dollars and cents, and for insurance companies a vital one.

  • For what awaits us in the future, in common with the states of Europe, is not a mere question of advantage or disadvantage--of more or less.

  • It is not a mere question of greater growth, of bigger size.

  • In any event, however, the general introduction of the interlocking apparatus into the American railroad system may be regarded as a mere question of the value of land and concentration of traffic.

  • It is, however, at best only a balancing of disadvantages,--a mere question as to which practice involves the least amount of danger.

  • It is a mere question of proportions,--resisting strength opposed to momentum.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    await the; being unwilling; foreign port; laundering center; mere animal; mere appearance; mere chance; mere child; mere human; mere means; mere negation; mere nothing; mere physical; mere question; mere trifle; mere variety; merely because; merely formal; merely natural; merely nominal; merely the; mutual understanding; new edition; the cities; turned into; various persons