Sentence examples for but for two exceptions from inspiring English sources

The late Miss Jean De Koven was an average American tourist in Paris but for two exceptions.

("The late Miss Jean De Koven was an average American tourist in Paris but for two exceptions. She never set foot in the Opéra, and she was murdered").

But it also provides for two exceptions.

There are over 20 self-regulatory systems across Europe which by and large are based on the British system, save for two exceptions – France, with its "pathetic, torpid and over-subsidised" press, and Italy.

So it was not surprising to see Mexico thrive as well at the Olympics, which is essentially an under-23 tournament (save for three exceptions per team).

Notably, our OMA-1 RNP purifications identified all the previously known and newly identified OMA-1-interacting proteins save for three exceptions: TAF-4, C27B7.2, and DH11.5.

Collmus's game plan allows for one exception: he will survey the back of the pack once, looking for a favored horse that is known to run late, a "closer".

Though the mere failure to set out the federal or Constitutional claims as specifically as petitioners have done would not always be conclusive against the party bringing the suit, where the complaint, as here, is so drawn as to seek recovery directly under the Constitution or laws of the United States, the federal court, but for two possible exceptions later noted, must entertain the suit.

Runs needed for the DL1 grow in all cases but for two notable exceptions: aifirf and basefp.

Associations also were broadly similar within subgroups for all-cause mortality but with two exceptions.

In a sharp-tongued, lengthy article in Scribner's Magazine (July 1916), Atterbury wrote that "model towns in America most closely resemble the renowned chapter on snakes in Iceland; for, with but one or two exceptions, there are none".