in few instances

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The great object is to obtain quick returns for the outlay, and, except in few instances, durability or permanency is not thought of.

From Diary in America, Series Two by Marryat, Frederick

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

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 Keppel, Henry

But this apparent despondency proceeded in few instances from sentiment.

From A Narrative of the Expedition to Botany-Bay by Tench, Watkin

At the best, and in few instances, it yielded a bare payment of expenses.

From The Revellers by Tracy, Louis