Word: merely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eight which, during the next two months, may well determine the Tories' immediate future. Any serious reverses in this "little general election" (as most Britons are calling it) could result in a prompt full general election. Middle-class North Lewisham, a marginal district that gave the Tories a mere 3,236-vote plurality (in a total vote of 40,904) in 1955, might cause the Tories to lose a seat...
...mere count of the fingers reveals twenty thousand miles covered...
...while three Ring performances are extraordinary, a popular repertory opera can be put on from eight to a dozen times each season, thereby making investments in rehearsal time and sets worthwhile). Moreover, the Ring requires the importation of singers most of whom sing only Wagner and hence appear a mere dozen or so times in a 160-performance season...
Winter winds and stricter regulations on the Hungarian side have cut the nightly flow across the border to a mere trickle, but even this trickle adds up to about 700 refugees a week who must be cared for, along with those already there. Last week Austria's Interior Minister Oskar Helmer complained...
...Doren is the first to admit that he is no genius and can claim neither a photographic memory nor total recall. Indeed, most of his education was in schools that had little interest in memory work or tests, regarded facts as mere accessories in the handling of ideas and the development of taste and reasoning. Some of his classmates at St. John's College in Annapolis, famed for its "great books" course and its cloistered devotion to scholarship, say that Van Doren's quiz wizardry flies ironically in the face of what the college and Charlie himself stand...