Sentence examples for except for one or two from inspiring English sources

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"If we have 25 possible suspects in a homicide, and we clear all of them except for one or two, then we will focus on those two".

Once we found that the laid back approach was working on certain tunes, we by-and-large kept it on almost all the tracks except for one or two.

It is inhabited exclusively by whalin men, except for one or two government officials.

Everything we are and were is forgotten, except for one or two people who find vague signs of it.

Poetry in Spanish has very little visibility in the English-speaking world, except for one or two big names – Neruda, García Lorca, for example.

Except for one or two shots, however, Docter and Peterson never exploit the obvious 3-D opportunity of fangs snapping in the viewer's face.

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There are no set rules on whether you should go for one or two kisses, except that you should be cautious with those you are less familiar with - two might seem over the top.

Across the divide, the women, all wearing hats (except for the one or two unmarried ones) follow the text in their own books.

Brown, the ambassador, said, "Mostly everybody has been well behaved, except for the one or two that have been really drunk and hilarious.

They are present in all (MtrAB) or all except for one (PhoRS) or two (SenX3/RegX3) species analyzed here.

As a 55-year-old geezer-dad, I had forced that trip into the far reaches of my fading memory, except for tales about one or two of its savage low points that I enjoyed recalling at dinner parties.

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