Sentence examples for estate except for from inspiring English sources

The design for Levittown little resembled the Livingston estate, except for the grassy plot surrounding every Cape Cod.

I'm on my way to look around Sky City: the apparently entirely normal red brick housing estate, except for the fact it sits 300ft in the air, on top of The Mall in Wood Green.

Unemployment drives crime, crime devastates real estate, and except for the most vulnerable – the poor, sick and elderly – almost everyone who can leave does.

Rufus was advised to settle with the eccentric old Mrs. Vines (who now occupied the crumbling estate alone except for a dog & cats) in person.

"Anyone who entered the work force after 1993 had almost nothing but positive real estate markets, except for certain pockets after the tech bubble burst," Mr. Thomson said.

The 17th-century confiscations made Ireland a land of great estates and, except for Dublin, of small towns decaying under the impact of British restrictions on trade.

He asked sarcastically what problem Democrats could have had with Lieberman's domestic positions-- except for the estate tax, the Bush tax cuts, school vouchers, gay marriage, homeland security, the positions-- except Medicare buy-in, positions-- except Security and tort reform".--lethelonestateforeign policy choices.

Now the estate remains empty except for a handful of people.

"Not for real estate, but for brands".

Lawrence Sicular, chief real estate analyst for Brown Harris Stevens, said prices remain surprisingly stable and may even be slightly higher than at summer's end, except at the highest levels.

They got some relief from a 1995 tax treaty that, among other things, exempts from U.S. estate taxes all U.S. assets (except real estate) held in estates that total less than $1.2 million; allows Canadians to claim estate deductions for contributions to Canadian charities; and gives them a share of the normal U.S. estate tax exemption.