Sentence examples for centuries except for from inspiring English sources

The Uighurs have lacked political unity in recent centuries, except for a brief period during the 19th century when they were in revolt against Beijing.

This was the real thing, an ancient village where nothing seemed to have changed for centuries except for the incongruous intrusion of a 160-passenger aerial tramway built a decade ago between Vaujany and the Alpe d'Huez ski area.

Thus, while conducting the Paris Opera orchestra in 357 performances of 32 different operas, he covered most key operatic works of the 19th and 20th centuries, except for Wagner's Ring Cycle.

The race, which pits horses picked at random for the city's neighborhoods, is a tradition that took its current form in the 17th century and has been held every year for centuries, except for a break during World War II.

The faculty meeting room at Princeton University, in a 1750s stone office building, looks barely updated over the centuries, except for a few recent portraits of 20th-century Princeton leaders on the oak walls.

The landscape in the East Riding had changed little since the enclosure of the open fields, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, except for the removal of some hedgerows to allow for the use of large agricultural machinery in the twentieth century.

There was nothing here that suggested the 21st century, except for the omnipresent Kalashnikov rifles and rocket-propelled grenade launchers.

The Renaissance reeds that were not adaptable to outdoor music vanished early in the 17th century, except for the curtal.

Thereafter, it was abandoned until the 20th century, except for a brief interval during the Crusades; the Arabs called the mountain Al-Sabba ("The Accursed").

Until the latter half of the 19th century, except for very small and scattered groups of indigenous peoples, almost all of central and northern Arizona remained uninhabited.

The light fittings are original, from the turn of the century, except for a few, which are duplicates she found in second-hand shops.