Except in rare instances, it is not held close to the body.

In some rare instances they have been seen to nest on the ground under trees.

In some very rare instances, the limitation was left out.

I suspect that this is one of those rare instances.

Yet, as happens in rare instances, the committee's was not the last word.

It will also sit as a court of first instance in rare instances.

California's move was a relatively rare instance of a state actually taking money from a fund.

Except in rare instances, they are about musicians more than music.

It was a rare instance of a major athlete's actually being caught.

It is one of those rare instances where Europe can act together in this way.