Example sentences of "[prep] [art] few exceptions [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , there is the question of condition : with a few exceptions the books listed have their entire life in front of them , certainly hundreds of years , and only a few are even what the booksellers would call ‘ reading copies ’ . |
| 2 | The linguist Charles Li , writing in his introduction to a highly speculative volume on the mechanisms of syntactic change ( Li 1977 ) , claims that with a few exceptions the only documented types of word order changes that are not due to language contact are SOV to ( VSO ) to SVO . |
| 3 | However , the altitude range is only a few kilometres , and therefore with a few exceptions the major condensate on view may be ammonia in all regions . |
| 4 | With a few exceptions the survey has been the dominant methodology adopted . |
| 5 | With a few exceptions the genera have the following characters in common : |