Sentence examples for a few conspicuous from inspiring English sources

With a few conspicuous exceptions, he hired people of passion and competence.

This brand is alive and well, with a few conspicuous exceptions.

With a few conspicuous exceptions, the restaurants were not equal to the skiing.

At a deeper level, though, the ad-hoc targeting of a few conspicuous culprits makes no noticeable difference to the way the country works.

They may be wrong on particular issues, but (with a few conspicuous exceptions, we all make mistakes) they tend to be pretty shrewd when it comes to giving and taking away power.

Obama's Republican critics are still piling on, and the Democrats, with a few conspicuous exceptions, such as Senator Harry Reid, are keeping quiet or registering some doubts of their own.

In a culture that disdains ostentation, there are few conspicuous displays of new money.

According to team member Jeffrey Plaut of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, the 250-kilometer crater is currently the best example of a subsurface impact structure on Mars, but a few less conspicuous ones have been hinted at by the MARSIS data, which so far cover only a tiny fraction of the planet.

The daughter of a Japanese-American mother and a white American father, Ms. Cherry, 24, said her integrated lifestyle allowed for few conspicuous ethnic markers other than perhaps wearing a kimono for Halloween or attending an obon festival.

In a year when more reputations have been consolidated than made, there are few conspicuous omissions from the list – although they include a second snub (after Dracula in 2014) for Nick Mohammed's alter ego Mr Swallow, whose faux-musical about Houdini is one of the most incontrovertibly hilarious hours in town.

The staircase bears a plaque naming ANAK as the benefactor, one of very few conspicuous declarations of the society's existence on the Georgia Tech campus.