Example sentences of "few exceptions " in BNC.
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| 1 | The show has , he said , ‘ something of the air of a school reunion about it ’ , and with a few exceptions ‘ it is the Pound business much as usual ’ . |
| 2 | There have been only a few exceptions to this general rule . |
| 3 | Rather like the ‘ high politics ’ school of historians , Maxse believed that once inside Westminster politicians tended , with a few exceptions , to ‘ go native ’ and become interested solely in their own advancement inside this exclusive club . |
| 4 | With a few exceptions , such as Liberia under Tubman and Tolbert , and Gabon under Bongo , foreign investors have been regarded with feelings of wariness or hostility . |
| 5 | Among the few exceptions were the cocoa planters of Akwapim . |
| 6 | Many meet the strictest safety standards but there are a few exceptions . |
| 7 | One of the few exceptions is Marks & Spencer . |
| 8 | All our bookshops continued to sell ‘ The Satanic Verses ’ and , with only a few exceptions where serious threats had been made , the book was always on display . |
| 9 | But , with some few exceptions , the main results had been disputatious wrangling . |
| 10 | With few exceptions the only thing that Common Law can do is to give him money compensation . |
| 11 | There are a few exceptions to the general rule that no one can make a transfer of goods who is not the owner . |
| 12 | This is the justification of the law of bankruptcy , originally applicable only to traders , but now , with few exceptions , to all insolvent persons . |
| 13 | Well … with a few exceptions . ’ |
| 14 | With only very few exceptions , the ruling élites were Christian . |
| 15 | On board , crews have become noticeably more customer-friendly ; with a few exceptions , passengers ' needs and wishes are now paramount . |
| 16 | What is clear is that , with few exceptions , the major avenue to career mobility in most countries is through formal post-secondary education . |
| 17 | He 's taught many a Clubrep to ski and with only a very few exceptions , he can virtually guarantee to get you up and around the bay first time . |
| 18 | There is a contractual relationship between firm and warehouse , saying that all the waste paper , with a few exceptions , will be sold to the factory at a fixed price . |
| 19 | Spalding concludes that , with few exceptions , such as the tin miners in Bolivia , labour has been coopted by these mechanisms and not proved itself to be a revolutionary force . |
| 20 | The poems of her last fourteen months are , with few exceptions , directed to Bridget Freemantle : ‘ 'T IS to her we sing … |
| 21 | The Data Protection Act 1984 , whose only specific reference to education concerns examination results , gives a general right of subject access ( with few exceptions ) to all computerised personal information . |
| 22 | In many Latin American countries teachers lack the freedom to devise and organise their own teaching plans , Peru being one of the few exceptions ( and even here there is a general curriculum laid down by the ministry ) . |
| 23 | Carter brought her little enough , and this was one of the few exceptions . |
| 24 | When one thinks that in France the present generation has seen neither court gowns nor a ceremony of this sort and that , with very few exceptions , the ladies of high society do not come to the Tuileries , one is struck by the fact that everything should pass off so well and without lending itself to too much mockery . |
| 25 | With a few exceptions , the ways the House has been covered by the cameras — and equally the ways the broadcasters have used television coverage of the House in the programmes — have changed little since the experiment began . |
| 26 | But it is just this sort of research which is hardly being practised at all ( with a few exceptions : Conyers 1971 ; Okigbo 1981 ; , and a bibliography on farm systems by Gilbert , Norman & Winch 1980 ) . |
| 27 | Foreign aid is so important in conservation policy-making in lesser developed countries because , with a few exceptions , most newly independent lesser developed countries had either no official conservation organisation whatsoever ( as in Latin America with the exception of a couple of Southern Brazilian states ) or had experienced the colonial model mentioned above , principally in Africa , South and South-east Asia . |
| 28 | Italian fiction , for a long time predicated on an absolute distinction between ‘ high ’ or ‘ quality ’ writing and ‘ popular ’ writing , and , with few exceptions , limited in its ‘ higher ’ forms to an alternation between social observation and psychological introspection , has changed its shape : the detective story , the thriller , the Gothic fantasy , science fiction , the romance , all now occupy an honoured place in what is accepted as ‘ serious ’ fiction . |
| 29 | With very few exceptions , depending on the shape of the dog 's head , all should have the so-called ‘ scissor-bite ’ . |
| 30 | 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 ’ . |