These were a small model, a mere one inch per spike.

Not true, of course - but it missed the truth by mere inches.

And yet the sculpture is a mere 10 inches high.

Above him was an air vent a mere six inches across.

I stared into his face, mere inches from my own.

She leaned closer, a mere few inches from his face.

So he pulled himself along with nothing but the very muffled light to show mere inches before him.

From high above, that looked like a mere three inches.

Not at a polite distance, as he now expected, but mere inches from his own.

She'd felt the heat of his body, standing mere inches from hers.