Example sentences of "except a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | The whole world ( except a few hardliners ) would welcome a breakthrough in the Arab-Israeli conflict . |
| 2 | Nicholson got nothing out of it except a few good pay days and suffered occasional touches of melancholia about his work ; he was getting ‘ old ’ and anything substantial was nowhere in sight . |
| 3 | There 's nothing in the house except a few empty boxes of arms and munitions sent to our government by the North American regime . |
| 4 | It did n't get me out of very much , except a few guard duties and er I collected one stripe , and then two , and I did the pay and all sorts of things . |
| 5 | He paid , and still looking thoughtful , escorted the young girls through the mahogany and brass revolving doors into the burgundy-coloured , upholstered , mirrored and gilded interior of Le Grand Condé , where in heaps of rosy cumulus , nymphs with come-hither looks and not a stitch on except a few blue satin ribbons frolicked between the mirrored panels on the walls and ceiling . |
| 6 | He remained loyal to Harley until the bitter end , though his own influence in the administration was dwindling , lost all offices except a few local honours at the Hanoverian succession , and more or less retired from active politics to follow his mild interest in antiquarian matters and his somewhat keener passion for the refinement and embellishment of his country seat at Margam . |
| 7 | Jenkins published little except a few articles and reviews , notably his devastating critique of A. S. Barnes 's Bishop Barlow and Anglican Orders ( 1922 ) ( JTS , vol. xxiv , 1923 ) . |
| 8 | Ranulf came up and expertly went through their wallets and pockets but there was nothing except a few coins . |
| 9 | and we 'd been up all night serving troops and er , you see , and then the Manager said , well look er now and have some breakfast before we get th another telegram and we were next door to the Telegram Office , you see , and when , when the erm war , during the war , you see , the man would come out of the Telegraph Office and he would say er and er , you see , all the lights went out except a few lights along the back of the counter . |