Example sentences of "except [prep] a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Except for a few letters from Helen to Jane Aldis , there is nothing until January 1897 . |
| 2 | I do n't believe I have anything else , except for a few photocopies . |
| 3 | Retirement migration is an important component , but except for a few areas its contribution to population growth has been smaller than that of other age groups , not just pre-retirement moves but also those of younger working age and their families ( Warnes and Law , 1984 ) . |
| 4 | In the end , the mini-LP initially catalogued as Reception Records ' REC 010 , did not actually leave Red Rhino 's York warehouse , except for a few copies . |
| 5 | Except for a few stickers falling off , it worked reasonably well . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | So in his late anthology , Confucius to Cummings ( New York , 1964 , with Marcella Spann ) , he explicitly preferred George Chapman 's Homer to pope 's , even though he had admitted that Chapman is unreadable , except for a few pages at a time . |
| 8 | Those who did marry all left the trade , except for a few cases where the husband was a serving soldier abroad during the war . |
| 9 | During these weeks Seb rarely saw Carrie , except for a few hours each Sunday when they worked on the farm ledgers together at the Hankses ' cottage , and even here they were rarely alone . |
| 10 | The boat was blown to glory , nothing was ever found of it except for a few bits of debris , and to all intents and purposes both occupants were blown to glory with it . ’ |
| 11 | But the natives were friendly except for a few incidents in Skye . |
| 12 | On the other hand , Heron ( 1794 ) says that Lewis was destitute of wood except for a few birches and hazels ’ . |
| 13 | To guard their roots the spaces were covered with gratings except for a few inches round the trunk . |
| 14 | Of ground-living mammals in Malaya over half of the species are forest animals and the elimination of the forest leads to the elimination of almost all the mammalian fauna except for a few rats . |
| 15 | I must establish my philosophical credentials a bit ; to that end I have finished , except for a few touches , a short work , " The Origin and End of Tragedy " ( Ursprung und Ziel der Tragödie ) … |
| 16 | I have finished , except for a few touches , a short work , " The Origin and End of Tragedy " … |
| 17 | They found the Springall house deserted except for a few servants . |
| 18 | Except for a few months in 1986 , after the collapse in the oil price , underlying inflation has not been this low since February 1968 . ’ |
| 19 | The biggest weapons , except for a few weeks in May when the federal army intervened , were mere light automatic weapons — AK-47s from Russia , Uzis from Israel , M-16s from the USA . |
| 20 | The field was empty except for a few ewes with young lambs . |
| 21 | Except in a few cases it was pronounced a failure because of the need to use cheaper materials . |
| 22 | Except in a few cases , where the law states that a product must be sold at a fixed price ( ie all retailers must charge the same price ) , retailers can charge what they like ! |
| 23 | Except in a few cases , formal inspections will not have been frequent enough to build up the kind of collective experience that HMIs have . |
| 24 | He claims that none of the release sites have been sufficiently far from the home loft to rule out the use of such cues , except in a few cases , such as trans-Atlantic displacement , and in these the evidence of homing is very weak . |
| 25 | A bit late : the bank 's growth in lending , and therefore its leverage , except in a few countries like China , Vietnam and Argentina , is likely to slow in the coming years . |
| 26 | Among adolescents , there is a feeling that Creole is appropriate " among friends " of the same generation , but not for use with parents , except in a few circumstances . |
| 27 | Nor did Egypt , which is after all a long way to the east of Cyrene ( Athens being nearer to Cyrene than is the Nile ) make much impact except in a few points of ritual . |
| 28 | The trees everywhere over-grow the road , so that it is totally impervious to the sun , except at a few places . |