in few instances

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Indeed, in few instances has senseless indiscrimination done more mischief; for means inapt and injurious have been had recourse to, where skilful and timely interference would have had the happiest effects.

From A Treatise on Sheep: The Best Means for their Improvement, General Management, and the Treatment of their Diseases. by Blacklock, Ambrose

Controversy is not seldom excited in consequence of the disputants attaching each a different meaning to the same word; and in few instances has this been more striking than in disputes concerning the present subject.

From English literary criticism by Various

In the departments where women only are employed, in which the minimum wages are six dollars per week for experienced adult workers, and fall in few instances below eight dollars.

From Women Wage-Earners Their Past, Their Present, and Their Future by Campbell, Helen

I feel this, and in few instances more sensibly than in the behaviour of Captain McDonald.

From History of Prince Edward Island by Campbell, Duncan

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 Keppel, Henry