A 1937 traffic census recorded that within a week, a mere 9,271 vehicles used the main Ringwood to Christchurch road.

I have a mere four vehicles at my disposal.

The other factor is singers who have mastered the art of integrating manifold shades of genuine expression into coloratura passages that would otherwise remain mere vehicles for virtuosity.

His time machine was a mere vehicle, no more remarkable than the gravity shielding material, Cavorite.

Hence Antton's continuing struggle to stop Basque being reduced to "a mere vehicle for decorative folklore".

The market was very small, with only 3,232 passenger cars sold and a mere 525 vehicles (310 cars, 215 trucks) assembled in Thailand in 1961.

Although they seem mere vehicles for the author's ideas, they serve as a frightening distillation of American identity gone haywire.

Thus internet is used as a full-scale environment for publishing music, not a mere vehicle to deliver audio files for the listener to download.

The omnipresent armoire comes to seem a mere vehicle for muted dynamic changes and the props proliferate until they become meaningless and remarkably unevocative.

Letters need not be mere vehicles for literacy, as these books demonstrate.