The word "excluding" is correct and usable in written English. You can use it when you wish to emphasize that someone or something is not included in a statement or list. For example, "Everyone in the class took part in the project, excluding Simon.".
The Sierra Leone ministry of health refused to share data in the early outbreak and instructed the WHO to report only lab-confirmed deaths, thereby excluding the "probable" and "suspect" cases that could not be tested because of the lack of testing facilities.
Add in the pleasure of eating in a decent restaurant for only a tenner a head for four courses, excluding the wine, and the trip becomes as memorable as it is cost effective.
But excluding this relief, aid flows to the world's poorest countries still fell by 8% as donors favoured loans to middle-income states, the OECD said.
Its 14-night Best of Japan self-guided holiday, which includes stays in the mountains of Hakone, on the island of Miyajima and in the craft town of Takayama as well as Tokyo, Osaka and Kyoto, costs £2,280pp, excluding flights and local transport.
It says it has managed to oversee the destruction of more than 80% of the world's declared stocks of chemical weapons, excluding those now declared in Syria.
Harrison said it was impossible to attribute Costa's increasingly strong performance to the controversy surrounding Starbucks's tax affairs, but he noted that Costa had enjoyed a record week last week, with UK stores – excluding franchised shops – taking £10m and attracting 3.8m customers.
"We also tested construction workers, stevedores and miners, excluding people who had ever worked at a cane company," he says.
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