"instance" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Betsy Ross is a notorious recent instance.
- Some have become community, social service and day care centers; others offices, restaurants, shops, warehouses, spas and in a particularly notorious instance, that of the Limelight, a disco.
- Probably the most notorious instance of scientific stubbornness was the refusal of eighteenth century astronomers to believe that stones actually fell from the sky.
- The special prosecutor, he said, was disbanded because it had become ineffective, handling few cases even as notorious instances of corruption, like Officer Dowd's, flourished.
- The most notorious instance of interference with the electoral process was the 1988 General Elections where many losing candidates were declared winners.
- Inarguably, the most notorious instance of Wilson's relapse into cocaine usage was on the eve of Super Bowl XXIII, where the Bengals were to play the San Francisco 49ers.
- Perhaps the most notorious instance involved getting a Babel Fish out of a dispenser in the hold of the Vogon ship.
- In one notorious instance in California, a school security officer broke the arm of a girl he was arresting for failing to clear up crumbs after dropping cake in the school canteen.
- The most notorious instance was that of a News of the World reporter's claiming to have spent an evening with Mick Jagger, who allegedly discussed his drug use and offered drugs to companions.
- The most notorious instance of lingering campaign debt is that of Senator John Glenn, an Ohio Democrat, who still owes more than $3 million to creditors from his 1984 bid for the Democratic nomination.
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