in few instances
Example Sentences
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The wealthy are daily subjected to these visitations, and in few instances is the immediate pecuniary relief refused.
From Suggestions to the Jews for improvement in reference to their charities, education, and general government by Faudel, Henry
At the best, and in few instances, it yielded a bare payment of expenses.
From The Revellers by Tracy, Louis
What we simply mean to affirm is, that the particular, single act, is, in few instances, deliberately meditated from the beginning.
From Charlemont; Or, the Pride of the Village. a Tale of Kentucky by Simms, William Gilmore
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
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 Biographia Literaria by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
