Example sentences of "[adj] except [prep] [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | The field was empty except for a few ewes with young lambs . |
| 2 | Their Korean hosts were said to be upset at the way they barely acknowledged each other in public except for a few surly and petulant exchanges . |
| 3 | But the natives were friendly except for a few incidents in Skye . |
| 4 | He had blue eyes and his head was bare except for a few short grey hairs . |
| 5 | The scales on the disk extend just into the dorsal edge of the disk , the ventral interradial areas are naked except for a few scales next to the genital slit . |
| 6 | The valleys of the choked and overflowing streams were speedily transformed into long stretches of bog , impassable except by a few well-defined tracks , which became marks for the enemy 's artillery . |