Sentence examples for decades except for from inspiring English sources

A replica of one made in 1812, it resembles a large skeleton key and hasn't changed much in three decades except for the mayor's name.

Though millions of riders saw it, by the mid-1980s, despite Mr. Brand's own efforts to keep the artwork maintained, it had fallen into awful shape and for almost two decades — except for a brief resurrection around 1990 — was either dark or was seen only as a strange, illuminated mess of spray-paint outside the subway window.

Nothing much happened for four decades except for a brief period of success in the early 1990s.

Sweden was one of the first wealthy nations to see births fall below replacement level, where they've stayed for four decades except for a brief resurgence in the early '90s.

LAST AUTHOR: Principal investigator whose grant funded the project but who hasn't stood at a lab bench in decades, except for that one weird photo shoot for some kind of pamphlet, and even then it was obvious that he or she didn't know where to find basic things.

We dined upstairs in a room that has admirably remained unchanged for decades, except for better lighting, hearkening back to days when dining was intended to be relaxing and enjoyed at your leisure, quiet enough for business, lovely enough for lingering.

No other department in the state of New York had any homicides by officers recorded by the FBI during the decade except for one, by Rochester in 2006.

She has been based in New York for more than a decade, except for a few years when she left to attend the Yale School of Art's sculpture M.F.A. program, from which she graduated in 2013, at the age of thirty-six.

Then, two-thirds of the way through, the narrative sweeps ten years into the future, and, while the setting remains the same (that summer house on the coast), the familiar cast of characters, once again assembled, has aged by a decade, except for three of them: Mrs. Ramsay and two of her children, their deaths revealed in a series of casually jolting parenthetical asides.

It's been easier, faster, and shorter to say years this way for every decade (except for the one that just ended) instead of saying the number the long way.

She lived and studied there for the subsequent decade, except for a return to South Africa in 1899 to paint a portrait of Rhodes.