And the low rates helped borrowers, so almost everybody won! Almost everybody, except for cities and states and school districts and other municipalities that had interest-rate swaps with banks.
Except for the city's famous traffic jams, the city is nothing like I had expected.
EXCEPT for discarded flyers littering the city streets, it is hard to tell that this is election season.
Except for the city's buses, Jerusalem (including the Wall) is perfectly safe.
Except for the city dwellers, the inhabitants of Laos, who number nearly 3 million, are hardly aware of the nation's three contending elements.
In 1929 the magazine Architecture quoted a young American who had come back from Europe marveling at everything he had seen except for one city.
Jacquelyn Heard, the mayor's press secretary, ultimately sent reporters an e-mail message saying that neither Mr. Daley nor his aides "can recall him meeting with the congressman on this project or anything else except for the city's legislative agenda" in Washington.
Extending the designation to the core of the central business district, a move supported by Gov. Edward G. Rendell, would mean that tenants of the building would be exempt from all state and local taxes, except for the city's wage tax, for 15 years.
"Except for the city itself, which after working hours is left to the caretakers and the cats and the odd penthouse millionaire, there is no London neighbourhood more resembling the restless downstream tide of the Thames than the ragged square mile of Soho".
Now, however, there might be an opposite sort of political gap: The U.K. has been booming (except for the City financial district) while most of Europe is in….
