The money the city gets for the permits merely covers the administrative costs.

Bowra's colleagues made haste to cover their private parts; Bowra merely covered his head.

"It merely covers the unauthorised occupation of campus or buildings," the spokesperson said.

As he stood in the water, it merely covered his feet, and his head knocked against the sky.

The shell is surface smooth, covered merely by growth lines which form two salients.

She refused food or medication, so Rayford merely covered her.

Erm anyhow, this evening, I'm proposing to just merely cover this particular area, particularly.

Some even claimed to like it, though Brown suspected they were merely covering the hurt with bravado.

Of course, if hospitals were merely covering their costs, the earnings of some for-profit hospital chains would not be growing.

This analysis merely covers the President's tax plan from 2012.