Mr. Kalikow then lost the buildings -- six-story walk-ups except for one eight-story building with higher rents -- in foreclosure and bankruptcy sales.
— Much of the University of Texas medical school on this island suffered flood damage during Hurricane Ike, except for one gleaming new building, a national biological defense laboratory that will soon house some of the most deadly diseases in the world.
Nothing much appears to have been constructed since then, except for one half-finished bank building and a mosque, both begun under the Taliban.
On a quiet residential street in the middle-class neighborhood of Saibag, everything was left standing except for one four-story apartment building that collapsed in a cloud of dust when the earthquake struck.
Except for a three-hour bomb-scare evacuation of one building and a four-day suspension of the after-school program, they succeeded.
All the toilets except for one, which is used by the building's ever-present security team, have been filled with glycol to prevent the pipes from freezing.
Asian countries reported very major or significant bottlenecks for all the building blocks except for one country that did not consider leadership and governance as a bottleneck.
Their complaints were minor — no dishwasher, no laundry in the building, an inefficient layout with a long hallway — except for one major one.
