Sentence examples for except for accidents from inspiring English sources

In his influential 1909 book, "Forty Years of American Finance," Alexander Dana Noyes (who would later be financial editor of The New York Times) argued that the depressions of the 1870s and the 1890s might have lasted much longer, except for accidents of history — a "European famine and a bumper crop at home" which stimulated the domestic economy through its agricultural sector.

The design of this health profile and ranges denoting risk points are shown in table 1. Heredity death: Highest risk point for father or mother registered (except for accidents or infections).

In summary, except for accident coverage all the covariates examined in the regression analyses have significantly influenced the relationship between multimorbidity, health care utilization and health care costs.

Fractures of the radius and ulna represented the largest proportion (around 60%) within each accident category, except for home accidents (53%).

Compared to the previous projects (e.g., eIMPACT and INTERSAFE2), it was not possible to determine if the vulnerable road user had been in an accident with a heavy or light vehicle (except for pedestrian accidents).

This new novel, except for the accidents that took Mrs. Connulty's husband and Dillahan's first wife, is a delicate sort of drama — there is no corpse in the basement, no bomb lies hidden in any drawer — but even so, a reader will have his heart in his mouth for the last 50 pages.

Have a plan for accidents.

Except for an accident on the ice in 2000 that damaged his vision, Bryan Berard has had a career filled with great promise and achievement.

Is something unbroken more valuable than something broken?" The rest of her life remains out of bounds -- except for the accident.

Wanda Mkutshulwa, managing executive of corporate services for South Africa national parks (SANParks), says: "Except for an accident between a ranger and a soldier who mistook each other for a suspected armed and aggressive poacher, there have been no fatalities of rangers in the Kruger national park related to suspected poaching in the past five years.

"That was probably the worst moment of the whole thing, except for the accident," Mike said.