Example sentences of "few exceptions [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1985 the average had dropped but the spread was narrower , with a few exceptions at the extremes ( the Manchester Evening News with 300,000 and the Darlington Evening Echo with 12,000 ) . |
| 2 | With a few exceptions along the coast ( such as Seaford in the 1770s ) it proved more or less impossible in Sussex where the land was largely enclosed already and the soil of much of the county ill-suited to highly profitable wheat farming ; so there was little of the trauma produced elsewhere by the restructuring of the rural landscape . |
| 3 | There are a few exceptions to the general rule that no one can make a transfer of goods who is not the owner . |
| 4 | The slave-owners had acted in bad faith over amelioration ; there were so few exceptions to the ‘ state of debauchery and debasement ’ of the colonists that reformers were fully justified , they believed , in their condemnation of ‘ the present state of corrupted morality and religion in the West Indies ’ . |
| 5 | There were few exceptions to the rule that the peoples of Siberia were illiterate before the Russians came . |
| 6 | Of the relatively few exceptions to the pattern two which call for mention are Chicheley Hall , Buckinghamshire ( 1719–21 ) , and Sutton Scarsdale , Derbyshire ( begun 1724 ) : the exotic façade of the former probably owes more to the taste of the patron , Sir John Chester , than to Smith 's own devising ; but Sutton Scarsdale , in part evidently inspired by Gibbs 's unexecuted design of 1721 for the university buildings at Cambridge , is his finest work , a wholly convincing essay in the heroic grand manner , in which the giant Corinthian order is handled with total assurance . |
| 7 | There are very few exceptions to the obligation to make a mandatory offer when the 30 per cent threshold is reached . |
| 8 | There are a few exceptions amongst the sea slugs which are herbivorous belonging to the Aplysia family and commonly called sea hares . |
| 9 | But there are a few exceptions in the seed-eating species like finches and buntings . |