The phrase "advances except" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to indicate exceptions to certain advances, but it lacks context and clarity.
Example: "All advances except those related to funding must be approved by the board."
Alternatives: "advances excluding" or "advances aside from".
In an interview, Gen. John P. Jumper, the Air Force chief of staff, declined to discuss the highly classified technical advances, except to say, "We're approaching the point where we can tell the SA-10 radar it is a Maytag washer and not a radar, and put it in the rinse cycle instead of the firing cycle".
In a few years, no writers will be given advances except the most guaranteed sellers.
Benchmarks in all of the 17 Western European markets advanced, except for Greece and the Netherlands.
Moreover, all goods paid for in advance (except for a few items such as plants and personalised goods) must be delivered within 30 days.
He then adds the proposition that no great cause can be advanced except by the genius of an inspirational leader, and that it is the clash of these individuals that drives politics.
As any great Bond villain does, he told his prey his master plan in advance, except no Bond movie ever had an extended riff about what happens when you overcook a man's penis.
The film is also noteworthy for a spectacularly hard-to-watch chest-waxing scene, a moment it would be a pity to detail too much in advance except to say that it's really Carell's chest hair and it's really getting waxed.
At the preprocessing phase, all expressions are evaluated in advance, except for the p.d.f.f
It is also worth noting in this context that there is little evidence for the presence of glaciers in northern Siberia during the last glacial advance except west of Novya Zemlya and at the tip of the Taimyr peninsula associated with the Fenno-Scandian ice sheet, and some glacial development in the Verkoyask Mountains of northeast Siberia (Mangerud et al. 2002, but see Grosswald and Hughes 2002).
"No one knew my question in advance except the moderators and my wife".
What you will notice over and over in the Frazier is constantly advancing, except when he is bending to avoid punches.
