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The fact that participants were willing to substitute part of a food item for the mere prospect of a relatively small monetary award is interesting, says Reimann.

Adults chose the smaller portion on the mere promise of a future award.

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"The fact that participants were willing to substitute part of a food item for the mere prospect of a relatively small monetary award is interesting," says Reimann.

Seattle gets an average of a mere 7 days a year with thunder.

How much is today's spirit of harmony a change from our more turbulent past? A mere generation ago, parentchild relations were described as the generation gap.

What Nijay didn't realize about his school—Tennessee State University — was its frighteningly low graduation rate: a mere 29 percent for its first-generation students.

It is actually something deeper than mere happiness: it is joy, which the monk（僧侣）David Steindl-Rast describes as "that kind of happiness that doesn't depend on what happens.

The independence created by philosophical insight is—in my opinion—the mark of distinction between a mere artisan (工匠) or specialist and a real seeker after truth," Einstein wrote in 1944.

Another part of the study suggests far more is at stake than the mere expression of views.

A mere generation ago, parent-child relations were described as "the generation gap".

On a mere 1/10 of an acre in Los Angeles, Loe and her family grow, can(装罐) and preserve much of the food they consume.

The median number(中位数) of speakers is a mere 6000, which means that half the world's languages are spoken by fewer people than that.

Two of the authors of the review also made a study published in 2014 which/that showed a mere five to 10 minutes a day of running reduced the risk of heart disease and early deaths from all causes.

While household robots today do the normal housework, social robots will be much more like companions than mere tools.

We are amazed today at the mere number of plays produced, as well as by the number of dramatists writing at the same time for this London of two hundred thousand inhabitants.

But this distinction misses the point that it is processing and aggregation, not the mere possession of bits, that gives the data value.

These epochal figures represented lives hard to imitate, but to be acknowledged as possessing higher authority than mere mortals.

Today's CEO, at least for major American firms, must have many mere skills than simply being able to "run the company" CEOs must have a good sense of financial markets and Maybe even how the company should trade in them.

When public opinion is particularly polarized, as it was following the end of the Franco regime, monarchs can rise above "mere" politics and "embody" a spirit of national unity.