in few instances

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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

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 MacBride, Thomas H. (Thomas Huston)

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

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.

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 Rhys, Ernest