in few instances

In tracing this identity, we can only, of course, find it in few instances in the cultivated Javanese and Malayan languages.

From The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy by Henry Keppel

The great object is to obtain quick returns for the outlay, and, except in few instances, durability or permanency is not thought of.

From Diary in America, Series Two by Frederick Marryat

The spores are very distinctly papillate; in some specimens, however, almost smooth; in few instances, rough.

From The North American Slime-Moulds A Descriptive List of All Species of Myxomycetes Hitherto Reported from the Continent of North America, with Notes on Some Extra-Limital Species by Thomas H. (Thomas Huston) MacBride

At the best, and in few instances, it yielded a bare payment of expenses.

From The Revellers by Louis Tracy

Life is, in few instances, and at rare intervals, the diapason of a heavenly melody; oftenest the fierce jar of disruptions and convulsions, which, do what we will, there is no disregarding.

From A Century of English Essays An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R. L. Stevenson & the Writers of Our Own Time by Ernest Rhys