Even so, retailers' troubles are more deep-seated than a mere pre-Christmas lull.
The HGP and Celera both said there were 30, 000 protein-coding genes, a mere one-third of previous estimates.
By hosting more complex data--fully functional applications rather than mere content--ChinaCache can generate higher margins, close to 50% higher profit per gigabyte of data, according to ChinaCache Chief Operating Officer Richard Xu.
Around 85% of hurricane-related payouts are caused by a mere one-fifth of the hurricanes that reach land.
Mr Ayres predicts that automated decision-making will soon see other professional jobs going the same way as that of the bank-loan officer, once well-paid and responsible and now a mere call-centre operative, paid peanuts to parrot the words a computer prompts.
But if Mr Fini's Future and Freedom for Italy became a full-blown party, it would scrape a mere 6-7%: it needs time to organise and raise its profile.
Because, under Germany's system of proportional representation, the Greens got 47 parliamentary seats, but under France's majority-voting system its Greens, the main environmental party, got a mere half-dozen.
Moments after I boarded my Seattle-bound plane, I began to realize that the Sea Gals were much more than mere pom-pom shakers.
Sepang Goldcoast is a mere 30-minute drive from the airport and just over an hour from the capital.
This is not mere obstructionism - many Republicans disagree with his whole view of terrorism.
But those sites are mere half-measures in the effort to snare a dream vacation.
Consider than Microsoft shares eked out a mere 28-cent gain in the past week.
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It sold 20, 000 vehicles last year, good for a mere half-point of market share in China.
His wife, Toni, had a mere 90-minute slog to her p.r. job in Menlo Park.
"It can take almost two hours to cover a mere 7-kilometer distance, " he sighs.
Bangkok's new Skytrain, a mere 23-km system, is already credited with improving traffic by about 4%.
For, at the moment, Michele Bachmann is not facing mere name-calling but outright character assassination.
But 100 years is a mere pin-prick for a country that dates back over two millennia.
Clearly we cannot trust our intuition about what can and cannot be achieved by mere number-crunching.
Finally, Watson's new "Concepts Insight" service lets apps connect to deeper ideas, moving beyond the mere surface-level interpretations of text.
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This year, in a mere also-ran BCS contest, it looked like Texas might come to Pasadena (of California).
The cost of shipping parcels is now a mere one-sixth of what firms in America have to pay.
Triumphalism on the basis of an inflated stockmarket and rising corporate and consumer debts would be mere self-deception.
No mere snap-shooter, the iPhone is a powerful creative tool that both invites and inspires images without the techno-load.
They will have an unbeatable representation of the universe a mere mouse-click away.
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Justly or not, a public conversion also adds credibility to positions that might otherwise be viewed as mere self-interest.
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It is heading for a mere 20-year gap between deciding on deep disposal and seeing the first canisters interred.
IMF, but it will be a mere sticking-plaster over a festering financial wound.
And despite the trailer trash stigma, Vanderbilt's 1.6% net losses on outstanding loans is a mere one-fifth the industry average.
Note that these additional grades are not mere sub-sects of what USDA Prime would be, but have more constrictive requirements.
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