He returned Saturday for Game 3 after a 17-day layoff, but was merely average.

Is it possible to predict whether a novice teacher will someday be great or merely average?

If you try to market and spend on every element of your story, you'll be merely average.

With 11 national holidays, we are merely average.

The show was rated as merely average by wrestling journalists.

This special looks at the root of achievement evil and what can be done to come to grips with being merely average.

And though his bowmanship was merely average, he threw a spear with more accuracy than many tried warriors.

Yet, in a round that had to be considered merely average, Woods still shot a 67.

That Justen knew even with his merely average - for an engineer - order-senses.

So, you might say it was merely average.