Example sentences of "[art] exception [prep] [art] few " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | On Hicks 's death in 1869 the business was taken over by G. R. Crickmay of Weymouth and , with the exception of a few weeks in 1870 spent in London with John Raphael Brandon , architect of the Catholic Apostolic Church in Gordon Square , Hardy worked intermittently with Crickmay in Dorchester and Weymouth until 1872 . |
| 2 | With the exception of a few short magazine contributions and the revision of the serial The Pursuit of the Well-Beloved for publication in book form , it brought to an end a career in prose fiction which had seen the publication of 14 novels and some 40 stories , and earned Hardy a place among the greatest 19th-century novelists . |
| 3 | In fact , with the exception of a few critics such as Lytton Strachey who noticed ‘ the melancholy of regretful recollection , of bitter speculation , of immortal longings unsatisfied ’ , the poems of 1912–13 attracted little attention . |
| 4 | Feminists must baulk at any … conclusion which implies that the vast audience of romance readers ( with the exception of a few up-front intellectuals ) are either masochistic or inherently stupid . |
| 5 | With the exception of a few books and some china , everything had had to go ; for there were those bills to be paid , and besides , they needed every penny they could get . |
| 6 | Among the intelligentsia , hardly a voice was raised in its defence , with the exception of a few university teachers of Marxism-Leninism . |
| 7 | With the exception of a few New Zealand government officials , the other inhabitants had only come to Koraloona because they preferred it to life in reduced circumstances in a big city . |
| 8 | With the exception of a few of the non-manual workers , concentrated in the first group , early retirement can not be said to have been chosen from a position of strength — namely , possessing financial security , good health , and the option of continued employment . |
| 9 | With the exception of a few large-scale programmes ( Giaretto , 1982 ; Sgroi , 1982 ) and a single case study ( Kolko , 1986 ) , little is known about the suggested success of specific approaches . |
| 10 | With the exception of a few intervening slabs , the routes are always steep , rarely less than overhanging or more than 25m , on near perfect rock and well equipped with bolts and chains for ‘ moulinette ’ . |
| 11 | With the exception of a few journalists perhaps over-committed to the official Anglo-American view after following it so assiduously for three years , the press , too , was mostly unenthusiastic . |
| 12 | Similarly the Eton Society known as Pop , the equivalent of school prefects , elected its own members with the exception of a few who belonged ex officio . |
| 13 | In spite of this , in the individual developing countries , with the exception of a few ( probably due to the small sample size for the extreme age categories ) , and in all developing regions , levels of mortality are much higher for infants born to women who have not reached age 20 and those aged 40 and over than to babies whose mothers were in the middle of their childbearing ages ( i.e. in the 20–39 years age group ) at their birth . |
| 14 | ‘ With the exception of a few broken computers sliding off desks , and other such minor damage , the plant came through the quake in good condition . |
| 15 | I am pleased to be able to confirm that the setting up of Council Tax liabilities for individual properties is now complete within the computer software , with the exception of a few properties where the rebate entitlement has still not to be finally resolved . |
| 16 | ( i ) A complete phase-out of CFCs by the year 2000 ; ( ii ) a phase-out of production of halons by 2000 , with the exception of a few used for medical purposes ; ( iii ) a commitment to " responsible " use of hydrochlorofluorocarbons ( HCFCs , developed by chemical companies as an " ozone-friendly " CFC substitute but themselves causing limited damage to the ozone layer ) , with a view to phasing them out by 2020-40 ; ( iv ) a complete phase-out of carbon tetrachloride ( a solvent used in certain paints and pharmaceuticals ) by 2000 ; and ( v ) a phase-out of methyl chloroform ( used in electronics and metalworking ) by 2005 . |