in few instances
Example Sentences
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But this apparent despondency proceeded in few instances from sentiment.
From A Narrative of the Expedition to Botany-Bay by Watkin Tench
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 George H. Heffner
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
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 Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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 William Gilmore Simms
