Sentence examples for except for huge from inspiring English sources

With the disappearance of most international coverage on television over the past decade, except for huge natural disasters and major events like the Iraq war, reporters like Mr. Utley became an anachronism.

It basically records: Annual Average Daily Flow (AADF) and traffic data for every junction-to-junction link on the 'A' road and motorway network in Great Britain It shows pretty clearly how vehicle use in the city has gone down fundamentally in nine years since 2001 - except for huge increases in cycling and bus/coach use.

In general, eruptions occur when an overpressure in the magma chamber reaches the fracture criterion of the chamber wall (Tait et al. 1989), except for huge magma chamber (Gregg et al. 2013; de Silva and Gregg 2014).

Except for huge matrices, the solution is not very sensitive to the parameter variation.

For a moment, it all seemed like Africa, except for the huge container parks, like cities without windows.

On our last morning, Gareth took us to a water hole where seven hippos were lolling, nearly submerged except for their huge snouts.

Because I was going to Connecticut later, I did have on my four-carat diamond studs, something I picked up from Charlotte in "Sex and the City," who doesn't wear much accessories except for these huge stud earrings.

For example, the triangular building at One Times Square that most recently housed a Warner Brothers Studio store on its ground floor, now stands vacant except for the huge outdoor signs that provide most of its income.

The freeholds are then sold on to private companies which extract the ground rent, charge high fees if a homeowner wishes to make alterations, and refuse to sell the freehold except for a huge premium.

A seated figure with a horned head and gray stripes covering its entire body, except for its huge hands, pulling at its face, it represents a Kossa, a being who might teach behavior by making fun of others.

But since taking over temporarily in the summer of 2006, he has largely operated in his brother's shadow, and, except for facilitating huge investments by Canadian and European resort developers here, he has brought about little change.