Example sentences of "except for [art] few [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Except for a few letters from Helen to Jane Aldis , there is nothing until January 1897 . |
| 2 | So in his late anthology , Confucius to Cummings ( New York , 1964 , with Marcella Spann ) , he explicitly preferred George Chapman 's Homer to pope 's , even though he had admitted that Chapman is unreadable , except for a few pages at a time . |
| 3 | The boat was blown to glory , nothing was ever found of it except for a few bits of debris , and to all intents and purposes both occupants were blown to glory with it . ’ |
| 4 | But the natives were friendly except for a few incidents in Skye . |
| 5 | To guard their roots the spaces were covered with gratings except for a few inches round the trunk . |
| 6 | Except for a few months in 1986 , after the collapse in the oil price , underlying inflation has not been this low since February 1968 . ’ |
| 7 | The biggest weapons , except for a few weeks in May when the federal army intervened , were mere light automatic weapons — AK-47s from Russia , Uzis from Israel , M-16s from the USA . |
| 8 | The field was empty except for a few ewes with young lambs . |