in few instances

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

From The Revellers by Tracy, Louis

Fright and terror, in a timid person might perhaps aggravate the disease in few instances, though it seems doubtful, to say the least.

From The Youthful Wanderer An Account of a Tour through England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany by Heffner, George H.

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

The fresh-water strata may sometimes be seen to retain their horizontality within a very slight distance of the border-rocks, while in some places they are inclined, and in few instances vertical.

From The Student's Elements of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir

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