1
The path of progress of an art has little to do with mere chronology.
2
Just to get ahead of mere chronology, the bane of many a good man's life.
3
By the mere chronology of his works, Bunyan belongs in our next period, but in his case mere chronology must be disregarded.
4
A mere chronology of celebrated battles would be of little interest, and the pages of English history abound in records of those deeds.