What an hour before had seemed to be the near end of her people's ordeal had become instead the mere beginning.

As I said already, this book is only a mere beginning on this road.

It endures forever, and a thousand years is only the merest beginning.

Even the secrets of the old woman were the mere beginning.

The mere beginning of expulsion would cause Israel's peace with Egypt to collapse overnight.

But Investigations is at best a mere beginning.

He regarded the nuclear freeze as "only the merest beginning of what really needs to be done."

The mere beginnings of cell repair technology might extend life by several decades.

And that would be a mere beginning.

Moreover, the historian's first 33 years were no mere beginnings.