"except for a few cases" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to indicate that something is generally true, but that there are exceptions to that rule. For example, "Most cars have four cylinders, except for a few cases where a six cylinder engine is used."
In mammals, except for a few cases, epidermal scales are largely restricted to the tails and paws.
The results showed that most of the vitrified forms, except for a few cases, can be utilized for the criticality control materials.
"Except for a few cases," he said, "the trade-off almost always is it's cheaper to run commodity computers and wait until tomorrow to get your results".
Except for a few cases, compositions of nebulae in galaxies outside the Milky Way Galaxy are measured by collisionally excited lines.
It can be concluded that for both datasets the maximum temperature (Tmax) values calculated by SVM technique were in good accordance with the experimental results, with relative errors smaller than 15% except for a few cases.
Ayman al-Sahbani, head of the emergency department, said that 130 casualties had been brought in, all of them with gunshot wounds "except for a few cases". That compared with 284 treated by the hospital last week, he said.
"Gravity is horrible when you come back to Earth except for in a few cases," he said.
Except for a few case reports, TPA investigations have been mainly performed in vitro [16 22].
Except for a few case reports on successful pregnancies [ 202- 205], no data on fertility or breastfeeding are available for adalimumab (human monoclonal antibody against TNF-α), anakinra (the interleukin-1 receptor antagonist) or rituximab (the monoclonal antibody against CD20).
Despite the huge amount of available data, the genetic determinants underlining these QTLs have not been identified, except in a few cases for tomato, a model species for unveiling the molecular mechanisms regulating sugar accumulation in fruit.
As seen in the tables given above, the proposed algorithm showed better verification performances than the other methods except a few cases for the GMM-UBM method.
