Sentence examples for except for a large from inspiring English sources

But the fact is Ms. Merkel, like 17 million other former East Germans, was raised in a country almost devoid of foreigners, except for a large Soviet occupation force and a few thousand Vietnamese, who lived largely sequestered from Germans.

The walls are bare except for a large, colourful painting by Chinese-American artist Walasse Ting.

Imagine a room that is empty except for a large population of flies on the wall.

The front room is empty except for a large mirror and a chandelier.

It was intact except for a large hole in its bow.

There is little to identify it from the outside except for a large tablet with the names of Jewish community members who were victims of the Holocaust.

At 4 weeks there were no differences between groups, except for a larger callus volume in the rhOP-1 plus collagen matrix group compared with the control groups.

There was little difference in the primary diagnosis recorded for the current hospitalization, except for a larger proportion of metformin users admitted because of cardiovascular disease and a smaller proportion admitted with infectious disease compared with non-users (Table  2).

(C ) Preprocessing was performed exactly as described in 'Materials and methods' (i.e., this panel is the same as Figure 5A except for a larger dynamic range for z -scores).

Few differences in terms of preoperative comorbidities were observed between the VAP and non-VAP groups, except for a larger proportion of NYHA class ≥ III patients and a more frequent history of congestive heart failure in the VAP group.

The testing session did not significantly affect any of the measured variables, except for a larger number of muscles switching on in response to the quick force release on day 7.