"except of the fact" is not a valid phrase in written English.
The correct phrase is "except for the fact" or "apart from the fact." For example: "The sandwich was perfect, except for the fact that it was a bit too salty."
It was a raised middle finger to the long legacy of the uniform — except for the fact, of course, that it was one itself.
So The Caretaker might run the risk of repeating itself, except for the fact that both of those episodes amounted to slight curios, sidesteps from the main narrative when they were giving Karen Gillan a week off.
There is really nothing new about this method of musical notation, except for the fact that none of the songs in the book have been previously recorded.
However, two different cDNAs have been isolated from X. laevis that encode for two almost identical forms of the protein, except for the fact that one of them is 9 amino acids shorter [ 28] than the other [ 29].
That might have been the end of it, except for the fact that Northside, which is based near the heart of Williamsburg, has a long history of tension with Community Board 1, which represents the area.
Everyone would now be celebrating that the drug worked for non-carriers of ApoE4 except for the fact that Elan did not specify at the start of the trial that they were going to separate the results between carriers and non-carriers.
"We would never have heard of them, except for the fact that twice in the past few months we have gotten emails from people who were excited to finally go out and shop at a store that supports unions, only to have those illusions shattered," Nolan wrote.
The two parameters showed patterns similar to that of ELW, except for the fact that there were no significant differences between the groups which were subject to NTV ventilation (p = 0.091 for EVPE; p = 0.113 for permeability, Figures 2B and 2C).
Figure 2 shows the lay-out of the information, which is analogous to that of the character frequencies (except for the fact that WCount is based on total of 33.5 million words).
It would be a comical anecdote except for the fact that hundreds of thousands of people died in the ethnic cleansing that followed as a direct result of British carelessness.
We have no good explanation of these discrepancies except for the fact that LIS showed great variations and the sample size consisted of only five sheep in each group.
