This would seem to be the clearest possible instance of a temporal pattern.

An instance of a product type retains the fixed order, but otherwise may contain all possible instances of its primitive data types.

I have been able to recall one instance - a possible instance.

It did not lay down instructions for daily life but was a comprehensive collection of possible instances, with extensive discussion.

Experts cite Romania as a possible future instance where human rights violations could lead to a call for action from outside national boundaries.

For another possible instance, see K. 412.

There is another possible instance of omophagia in The Bacchae.

(And I wholeheartedly support Canadian troops on the ground in every possible instance.)

I see little point in this new machinery to collect all the information on possible instances of fraud.

Smith felt that the character needed to be a quiet and rather introverted person who does not burn himself out at every possible instance.