Sentence examples for happening except for from inspiring English sources

In the first place, there is a distinction between sustaining attention in a detection task, where the overall workload is high, and sustaining it when little is happening except for the occasional looked-for events.

But when you're sitting here for nine hours with nothing happening except for meals, I think it would be a slow death.' An elderly agent provocateur, Deddie rang for a carer at 12.40am.

Everything we were talking about 10 or even 20 years ago in terms of cyberwar is happening, except for the development of relevant international law.

Press reports stated that in April 2011, Apple agreed to amend its developer agreement to stop this from happening "except for information directly necessary for the functionality of the apps"; however, the suit alleged that Apple took no steps to do this or enforce it "in any meaningful way due to criticism from advertising networks".

"Nobody knows what actually happened except for the people who were involved," Crawford said.

And that's exactly what happened, except for a few things.

"No one knows what's going to happen except for PricewaterhouseCoopers, so they have to practice every possible shot".

And that's exactly what happened, except for one thing: the movie, which started as my alibi, proved to be a revelation.

The British bookies are picking "Argo" for Best Picture — though, on Oscar night, anything can happen, except for Daniel Day-Lewis not winning Best Actor.

People assume, he said, that "the election was so close, nothing will happen except for finger pointing and name calling and bitterness".

For the first 15 minutes of the second half it would not be unfair to say nothing happened, except for a string of yellow cards, two for fouls on Nani.