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Meanings of only instance in English

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Usage of only instance in English
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This case interested Darwin as the only instance of heterostylism in Monocotyledons.
More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 / A Record of His Work...
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This is the only instance of native Portuguese subjects crossing the continent.
Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa
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That's far from the only instance of these kinds of problems.
Reuters
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This was the only instance in which I was shunned in this quarter.
Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa
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Nor is this the only instance of the kind in history.
The Acadian Exiles : a Chronicle of the Land of Evangeline
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It is the only instance, perhaps, in the war of such a surprise.
Slavery and Four Years of War, Vol. 1-2 / A Political History of...
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This is the only instance in which they ever eat together.
Dr. Scudder's Tales for Little Readers, About the Heathen.
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No, that is the only instance the law does not pardon.
Plays: Comrades; Facing Death; Pariah; Easter
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And then comes the only chance we take,-theonly instance where we gamble.
Green Fancy
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Is ice the only instance of Water existing in a state of solidity?
A Catechism of Familiar Things; / Their History, and the Events ...
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This was not the only instance of unfairness in the conduct of the prosecution.
Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions — Volume 1
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This was the only instance in which I indulged in this piece of vanity.
Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa
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Pundyk said the Fortune incident was not the only instance of plagiarism by Valian.
Wired
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Nor was this the only instance in which he demonstrated his breadth of view.
Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War
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Nor was this the only instance in which our ancestors were unjust to him.
The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume ...
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This is the only instance of a transverse cleft which came under my notice.
Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 / Being Mainly a...
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United States of America
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