in few instances
Example Sentences
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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
On the other hand, the summer season offers to his contemplation the successful attainment of a mode of existence suited to the burning climate; a problem found to be solved but in few instances.
From The Picturesque Antiquities of Spain Described in a series of letters, with illustrations representing Moorish palaces, cathedrals, and other monuments of art, contained in the cities of Burgos, Valladolid, Toledo, and Seville. by Nathaniel Armstrong Wells
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 Henry Faudel
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 Ernest Rhys
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
