in few instances
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Indeed, in few instances has senseless indiscrimination done more mischief; for means inapt and injurious have been had recourse to, where skilful and timely interference would have had the happiest effects.
From A Treatise on Sheep: The Best Means for their Improvement, General Management, and the Treatment of their Diseases. by Ambrose Blacklock
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
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
But this apparent despondency proceeded in few instances from sentiment.
From A Narrative of the Expedition to Botany-Bay by Watkin Tench
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
