Except for a few camps, soldiers are no longer found at the various sites.
Except for a few shares I sold in 1999, I haven't ever sold any share.
Except for a few years, over the past decades discretionary appropriations have gone up and up.
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Except for a few smuggled radios, the prisoners were largely deprived of sources of outside information.
As winter approaches, the trees are bare except for a few remaining leaves dangling from their branches.
The instruments are pretty much the same, except for a few we've picked up along the way.
Except for a few (such as insurance) in which Buffett has particular expertise, he leaves the details to his managers.
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With little furniture, no backdrops except for a few curtains, and everything painted black, the atmosphere is claustrophobic and often nightmarish.
Except for a few uncomfortable days with a catheter in place and two to three weeks of limited incontinence, all is well.
When the conspirators arrived, they found the place empty except for a few local drudges, and they gave up on the plan.
Over the 56 years of the hard disk drive industry annual shipments of HDDs have increased year over year except for a few exceptions.
Except for a few paid columnists and staffers on Forbes Woman, none of us makes a dime from the digital ink we spill daily.
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He looks to southern Italy for lemons, except for a few winter months, when the French versions will do, and to Spain for almonds.
Imposing a tariff harms everybody, except for a few interested parties.
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In the studies, Cholestin had no side effects, except for a few cases of flatulence, according to Joseph Chang, vice president of clinical affairs at Pharmanex.
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On the demand for ceasefire, Mr Reddy said there had been no fire from either side for the past two weeks, except for a few minor incidents.
Hurricane Irene has come and gone, and except for a few places that got walloped, is fading into memory, leaving nothing but the Monday-morning media analysis behind.
Mr. Ehrmann says accusations that he runs a sect are "ridiculous, " and that except for a few annoyed neighbors, he has good relations with people in the village.
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Traditional businesses mostly do not have instrumentation around their operations, except for a few mission critical pieces, because the computing power to drive the feedback loops was not available.
The debate on Big v Small government is an old one, and except for a few fanatics on both sides of the debate, the real issue is how large for now.
The complexities and intricacies of Wall Street appear to be largely ignored, except for a few cursory statements about bank bailouts and excessive compensation that have been stapled on to their wish list.
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Executives who cash in future deferrals early (except for a few specified reasons) will owe a hefty 20% tax penalty--twice that paid by folks taking early distributions from Individual Retirement Accounts or 401(k)s.
Except for a few weeks in August 1998, when rebels attacking the capital were routed by the Angolan soldiers who had come to Mr Kabila's aid, Kinshasa has been spared the violence of war.
Fans remained calm except for a few boos.
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The complexities and intricacies of Wall Street and the City of London were largely ignored, except for a few cursory statements about bank bailouts and excessive compensation that have been stapled on to their wish list.
Every species on the island retreated to a small islet offshore, Boatswainbird Island, except for a few individuals that held on to the most inaccessible cliffs, and the phenomenally scrappy wide-awake terns that visit the southern plains to breed.
The new Woody Allen film stars Larry David as Boris Yellnikoff, an irate New Yorker who once had a beautiful wife and a serious reputation as a physicist. (Or so he tells us, talking straight to the camera.) Now he has a lousy apartment, no job unless you count chess tutoring and nobody to share his life except for a few cronies.
Indeed, except for a few tv loudmouths and self-help salesmen, there's nobody on the list whose day job is to interpret real events. (We dropped a category for public speakers this year--that's why you don't see Bill Clinton--because it's such a static roster.) No matter: Click here to enjoy the names and faces as useful data points of a personality-obsessed era.
Except for a very few universities, there is little interaction or cooperation with the business sector.
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