Example sentences of "few exception [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under the progressive system of construction it was , however , impossible to do this , and with a very few exceptions a shortage of any one part held up the whole of the line . |
| 2 | With few exceptions the only thing that Common Law can do is to give him money compensation . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | With few exceptions the cottages and houses opened directly onto the street with no front gardens . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | With few exceptions the participants in our study of talk about classroom violence and its accounting are from one school that is graced by some of the fans . |
| 7 | With very few exceptions the rule is that Parliament determines the maximum penalty and it is then for the courts , having heard the evidence , and seen the defendant in person , and heard what can be said in mitigation on his behalf , to decide upon the appropriate punishment in all the circumstances of the case . |
| 8 | The introduction of girls was quite a novelty , as with very few exceptions the ancient grammar school foundations were generally only for boys . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | With a few exceptions the survey has been the dominant methodology adopted . |
| 11 | With few exceptions the world now stands as one . |
| 12 | By the middle and late 1870s this situation had been substantially modified , but with few exceptions the rural population still largely prevailed over the urban . |
| 13 | With a few exceptions the genera have the following characters in common : |