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Example sentences for "merely nominal"

  • Recently the earnest attention of the French government has been directed to propositions for the artificial propagation of fish, as a means of affording good and cheap food to the people at a merely nominal cost.

  • With the cost of transportation thus reduced to a merely nominal standard, prices of Southern products will be upon an average no higher here than in Louisville.

  • The property was then sold to a Mexican company for a merely nominal sum, and is now regularly worked at a handsome percentage of profit upon the final cost.

  • If this rule is in any way evaded, the government confiscates the property and at once offers it for sale, so that those on the lookout for such chances often obtain a good title at a merely nominal price.

  • The raising of wages is merely nominal to those who receive them; it increases the competition in the corn market, and its ultimate effect is to raise the profits of the growers and dealers in corn.

  • Why then should not Protestants, Jews, infidels, or merely nominal Catholics, fill the public offices, and take the management of public affairs?

  • The Magazine charged the corporation of the city with granting leases of valuable sites for Catholic institutions for a long term of years at a merely nominal rent.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    annual average; being evil; beyond what; domestic policy; gave him; gone from; human thought; including those; leaves usually; locum tenens; love with; merely formal; merely human; merely natural; merely nominal; merely said; merely subjective; merely the; merely wished; much harm; other grounds; pleased smile; point lace; rose and; secundum quid; several varieties