They cleared them, except for small deletions.
"There is no housing except for small shelters made out of sticks".
Most of the oblast is rugged and mountainous, except for small patches of lowland along the Sea of Okhotsk.
But their livelihoods are restricted — they are not allowed to farm, except for small garden plots, or to graze animals.
The rest of the prefecture is mountainous except for small southern coastal plains and lowlands along other river courses.
Near the city's outskirts, no one remained, except for small groups of rebels with radios who kept tabs on pro-regime militia forces gathering beyond the city limits.
"Everybody's a victim, except for small, white, nice guys who just want to make their moms proud and touch some boobies," he said.
Peru, meanwhile, has largely vanquished its terrorist threats, except for small Maoist factions feeding off the cocaine trade in remote areas.
This problem has defied solution, except for small values of n, though a large amount of numerical data has been amassed.
However, except for small adjustments, Germany's guarantees and loans to governments and banks in the euro zone have not been accounted for as losses.
Musa Ibrahim, the government spokesman, has said at news conferences each night for weeks that Misurata was largely under government control, except for small "pockets of violence".
