The phrase "agreed apart" is not standard in written English and may cause confusion.
It could be interpreted as referring to a consensus that is separate or distinct from something else, but it lacks clarity and common usage.
Example: "While we have agreed apart on several issues, we still need to find common ground."
Alternatives: "agreed separately" or "consensus aside".
This is essentially agreed, apart from the timeframes, but is complicated by a bigger argument over welfare curbs.
At the last major summit, the one where David Cameron pressed the eject button, little was agreed apart from a restatement of Maastricht rules on budget deficits.
"We're hoping to get an away trip in February with a Welsh league team - everything's agreed apart from the date," MacKenzie said.
The Competition and Markets Authority's proposals to enliven the banking sector were feeble, almost everybody agrees (apart from the report's authors, of course).
Major Rochester agrees: "Apart from the exercises themselves, the group dynamic is important in that it enables individuals who have left the services to re-engage and share experiences with people from a common background.
All items attained over 80% of agreement (including completely agree and agree) apart from "economic problems".
All agreed that, apart from getting their content online in the best shape possible, they needed to move much further downstream in marketing terms.
The only concrete thing they said they agreed on – apart from the usual blether about saving the euro being tremendously important and so on – was the one thing nobody has been talking about – the EU budget.
Ms Pack agreed that apart from the alleged fraud in two of Kosovo's 37 municipalities the election had passed off well.
She got some backing from last year's Bake Off finalist Ruby Tandoh, who wrote: "Let's just agree that apart from (probs) a few over-zealous hockey tackles at school, Diana's likely never done a nasty thing in her life".
And Johannes Witteveen was the Dutch minister of finance several times before going to the Fund.Jan BohetsKampenhout, BelgiumPPPoor measureSIR – You are wrong to say "most economists agree" that, apart from measurement problems, purchasing-power parity (PPP) is the correct way to measure global output ("Food for thought", May 29th).
